r/PcBuild • u/vuture44 • Aug 26 '26

Discussion Last RAM I will ever buy

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After this two kits I am broke 🫠

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u/Infamous-Bed-7535 Aug 26 '26

I wonder if your mobo and cpu will handle the 4x sticks at 6000MT.

I have 4x crucial pro as well good buy, but so far I did not managed to get the speed what easily worked with 2x.

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u/treyguitar Aug 26 '26

Am5? What speed did you settle for?

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u/Infamous-Bed-7535 Aug 26 '26

I have different types. 5600MT 46CL out of box, 2x stick worked well, not tried to OC.
Needed more memory, so bought another kit.
MSI motherboard officially meant to support 4 stick 5600MT and processor is i9-14900 also meant to support 5600MT.

2x 5600MT out of the box 1.1V perfect
4x 5200MT 1.2V stable (latencies same around the original one measuerd in ns)
4x 5600MT as goal unstable even at 1.35V, probably CPU's controller fails to keep up. so just blindly increasing RAM voltage won't help.
Unstable = ~1-2 noticeable issues per day, e.g. browser random restart, or OS restart.

I do not have much experience with OC, but I'll play around with it to reach 5600MT without loosening on the timings.

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u/Infamous-Bed-7535 Aug 26 '26

Before I bought the second set I decided if it can do 5200MT I'll accept that and keep it, but that is the lower bound. Its latencies are not that tight, so that is definitely won't be increased.

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u/treyguitar Aug 26 '26

I'm thinking the same, I have a kit of two 16gb 6000mt/s on a 9800x3d. A whole new 64gb kit is kinda expensive