Best budget ram for Ryzen 5 1600X

omalley · Jun 11, 2017

Hello, I'm trying to setup a budget build for a friend of mine. So I've decided to go with the new Ryzen CPUs for the build but I'm not fully sure what all goes good with Ryzen. I know that higher ram speeds can give the CPU a good performance increase. Anyways, as of right now I don't have any board picked out yet, I figured I would get the best ram for the 1600X and then find a board that supports the ram instead.

Seanie280672 · Jun 11, 2017

omalley :

Whats the budget ?

Dark Lord of Tech · Jun 11, 2017

With Ryzen memory it's best to pick out a board first , then go to the QVL list on the site and go from there.

das_stig · Jun 11, 2017

Agree with SR-71 and then budget for fastest dual-kit RAM you can afford, Ryzen will benefit from it.

omalley · Jun 11, 2017

Seanie280672 :

The overall budget he gave me for the whole build is 700 to 800. And he want's a 1050 ti.

omalley · Jun 11, 2017

Okay then, I was looking at the MSI X370 SLI Plus motherboard. What is your opinion on that board then?
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X370-SLI-PLUS.html#productFeature-section

Dark Lord of Tech · Jun 11, 2017

I like the board , more than enough features.

TechnoStyle · Jun 11, 2017

If the GPU is GTX1060 or lower, you can buy 2133 Mhz RAM sticks for the built.
Cheap Crucial RAM sticks should do the trick. Check motherboard QVL list for memory before buying. You can also check Crucial website for compability.

omalley · Jun 11, 2017

TechnoStyle :

What's the reason for this? Is it because the budget cards wouldn't be bottlenecked by the cpu due to it being a more low end card?

TechnoStyle · Jun 12, 2017

omalley :

Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4k_ErEg-FU

If you want great performance, you must buy nice GPU.
If you don't want to bottleneck your GPU, you must buy CPU which have enough power for GPU.
If you don't want to bottleneck your CPU, you must buy RAM which have enough power for CPU.

So, GTX1060 and Ryzen 5 1600X are nice combo. GTX 1060 doesn't have enough power for bottlenecking by 2133 Mhz RAM.
(Okay, 2133 Mhz bottlenecks 3-5 FPS sometimes but come on it isn't important.)
With 1050Ti ? Wouldn't worry. Just buy 2133 Mhz.

Search

Best budget ram for Ryzen 5 1600X

omalley

Honorable

TechnoStyle

Seanie280672

Estimable

Dark Lord of Tech

Retired Moderator

das_stig

Glorious

omalley

Honorable

omalley

Honorable

Dark Lord of Tech

Retired Moderator

TechnoStyle

Honorable

omalley

Honorable

TechnoStyle

Honorable

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page