G.SKILL Launchs Flare X Series and Ryzen Optimized FORTIS Series DDR4
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vase
Nice, another part of the puzzle to the big picture 😉
leszy
16GBX4 3200MHz FlareX and no 16GBX2 kit for dual-channel supporting CPU?
vase
Silva
Glad to see better memories already coming out supporting the platform, let's hope the bugs get ironed out fast.
brutlern
Ryzen optimized? I bet if you put them in an Intel system, they perform exactly the same. Right now, it's not the memory that's bugged, it's the platform. As soon as they iron out the kinks all memory on the market will perform just fine. It's just marketing. It's like the little "Win10 Ready" stickers they put on peripherals for marketing purposes. They didnt actually change anything, just plopped a sticker on it.
Alessio1989
hpascoa
They're already available on Newegg, saw them this morning and they were reported as "in stock". The timings look pretty high though, 16-16-16-39 at 2400 and 18-18-18-43 at 2666 😕
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232511
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232515
By comparison the "Intel Optimized" kits have 15-15-15-35 timings at both 2400 and 2666:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232176
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232174
So it's not like G.Skill couldn't take those same kits, program AMP instead of XMP, and say they were "Optimized for AMD" and sell them at the same timings. The higher timings on these seems to be intentional, I wonder if in their testing G.Skill found anything about the Ryzen memory controller that makes looser timings preferable!
vase
hpascoa
vase
I just think this is these are their opening kits.
As typical for RAM you will find almost any combination of CAS and clock later on in the large forest of fully differentiated yet for the most part indistinguishable SD modules...
In this case they put the low CAS high clock out and at the same time the entry models with higher CAS and lower clock... The mid section seems in the process of being binned after having identified the highest and lowest performers ...
Also CAS is overrated. At least if set in contrast to clock.
You rather have a 2666 CL16 than a 2400 CL15 because effective latency is still lower on the first... (12.51 ns vs 12.00 ns)
Agent-A01
hpascoa
MrAMD
How about some RGB love for AMD OP. lol
chispy
Great to see everything falling in place 🙂
RooiKreef
Nice kits from G. Skill. Hopefully this will clear up some of the bandwidth issues on the lack of quad channel support on the AM4 platform. Not that it makes any noticeable difference, but it's always nice to have a little more of everything as a whole.
Silva
Dazz
Wonder why people expect high speed memory compatibility to be perfect the second the AMD motherboards are out the door? Just looking at the Z170 and Z270 and their memory compatibility was ten times worse, on average it took 6-10 BIOS revisions before they cleared up the compatibility issues.
FloppyDrive