Ryzen 5000 Memory Recommendations?

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Anyone here running a desktop with the Ryzen 5000 series CPU? Curious what memory you’ve used in your build. I’m using an older G.Skill kit that I’m trying to upgrade. It was a carry-over from a previous build and won’t clock past 3200mhz, so I’m not able to bump the FCLK on my 5800X3D up to the max 2000mhz.

I tried buying another G.Skill (F4-4000C18Q-32GTZ) but half the DIMMs were dead on arrival, and the seller didn’t have any others left in stock. Newegg has a Corsair Vengeance kit in stock, but they don’t list the hardware version number so it’s kind of a crapshoot if I’ll get the right one for AMD builds. They have some other G.Skill kits in stock that are on my mainboard’s QVL but they’re that awful gaudy-looking “royal” series.

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Pretty much all my RAM is Corsair. My 5950X has a 4x32G Corsair kit. I don’t ever push memory timings because I prefer my systems to be rock solid stable. Additionally, I prefer more RAM than faster RAM, and if you want the best timings, you need to only use 2 sticks and not 4, which cuts your maximum possible RAM in half.

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