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If you're thinking of upgrading to AMD's current AM5 platform, you're probably researching not just which CPU to buy, along with the supporting motherboard, but also which DDR5 memory kit you'll need.

To date, we've reviewed and tested almost all AM5 processors, along with countless 600 and 800-series motherboards. However, it's been some time since we looked at memory performance, so today we've got a quick update for you, focusing on G.Skill's new CL26 memory and DDR5-8000 performance.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For example, when testing every single X870/X870E motherboard, we found that about half of the 21 boards tested worked with DDR5-8000, while the rest were unstable or simply failed to boot.

This is brutal. I am happy that I have no plans to upgrade till at least Zen 6 (and probably the next AMD GPU generation; this may be my first non-Nvidia GPU since my family switched from S3 ViRGE to Riva TNT a quarter of a century ago).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That switch was pure fire. I went to a tnt2 ultra and I felt like I time travelled.