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8 de mayo de 2024
Hands-down best, most stable DDR5 DRAM for AM5 chipset
I'm an experienced PC builder. Recently I have been building a Media PC using a fan-less PC case using conductive heating technology. My recent build consists of the AMD AM5 chipset using ASUS ROG Strix B650E-I Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard and the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU. One of the most frustrating experiences was finding DDR5 DRAM that afforded stability and compatibility. Attempted multiple memory sets: G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series DDR5-6400 RAM 64GB (2x32GB); Corsair Vengeance 64GB 2 x 32GB DDR5-6000; TeamGroup 48GB TFX OC DDR5-8200 (2x24GB). Stability and compatibility issues abounded with all three that I tried and tested on the system despite all the tweaking avenues I tried. Each of these also were detected as DOCP in the BIOS. Then I tested TeamGroup T-FORCE DELTA RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-6000 (also detected as DOCP) that was on hand from another system and that seemed to work with some tweaking in the BIOS settings. I also established that 6000 was the upper limit in terms of stability. I did some further shopping around only to find this set of DDR5 on Amazon for a very nice price point. No frills (no fancy LED lighting), but attractive. At first glance, you might even think this was just another set of cheap DRAM. I installed this into my system and booted into BIOS and with the ASUS Ai Tweaker set to auto, this was detected as EXPO and was defaulting to the 6000 speed out of the box. None of the other DRAM I trialed was detected as EXPO (only DOCP) and none ran at their advertised speed when the system was set to an automatic profile for the memory. This was the only one. I set this to EXPO II profile (ramping it up in performance) and then ran in Windows the Intel Burn Test at "Very High" for 40 test cycles. All passed successfully. Did the system get hot... YES! But it ran as it should without a whimper. This DRAM outperformed all others. You will find that 6000 is quite probably the maximum you can push the AM5 chipset with reasonable assurance of 100% stability. Anything above that and you risk stability issues. Single, not Dual Rank memory also appears to be the most reliable per my experience. Some of the cooling limitations might be to blame with the fan-less system design and the DRAM running quite hot during testing which probably didn't help stability. Through all the testing extremes, including the high temps the system reached, and beyond this DRAM thus far is the most stellar in speed, reliability and performance while delivering at an affordable price point! Highly recommend for AMD AM5 builds!Ver másVer menos
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