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RYZEN 5000 SERIES NOW ONLINE - 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X COMING NOV 5TH AT 5PM **NO COMPETITORS**

TreeConnect

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gambiting said:
Yeah, 3600MHz ram is pretty much required. I do disagree about the Gen4 drives though - the cost is huge compared to Gen3, there is zero difference in normal day-to-day use, you'll only see the crazy transfer speeds in sequential copy and even then only up to the size of the SLC cache. I was really considering it for a while but ended up buying a 1TB WD Black for my system drive, it was on a deal at £106, the same money would maybe get me a crappy 500GB Gen4 drive. Simply not worth it at the current prices.
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Okay does the b550 support two slots for the NVME? If not i might just try looking for a 2TB gen3 so i can store everything.

subbytna said:
If you're spending that sort of cash, get a Gen 4 m.2 NVME drive
Ditch that RAM and get 3600 speed RAM. Ryzen loves fast RAM- DDR4 3600 stuff
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Awesome thanks! Do you think i could get away with 16GB of ram? Or will i need to upgrade to 32. I dont do any rendering
 

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Griff7520 said:
if you read other peoples posts you would see that there is a lot of confusion as to when people can attempt to buy the cpu tomorrow, I was just stating that I was told today by a sales rep on the phone it is 2pm and not 5pm as others have said.
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My bad. When you said on the phone I thought you meant on the phone to OCUK.
 

gambiting

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TreeConnect said:
Okay does the b550 support two slots for the NVME? If not i might just try looking for a 2TB gen3 so i can store everything.



Awesome thanks! Do you think i could get away with 16GB of ram? Or will i need to upgrade to 32. I dont do any rendering
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It does, but only one of them at PCIe 4.0 and the other at PCIe 3.0. Again, I don't think it matters in the slightest.

And sure, depends what you do. 16GB is still enough to play games nowadays, I went with 32GB personally just to futureproof.
 

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I think it's safe to assume that OCUK will be 2pm as well...Unless they know there's not much stock around, so hope to mop up those who don't have any success elsewhere at 2pm, knowing that they will pay a bit more to get it sooner... :p
 

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This is hilarious, so much confusion about stock levels, release times, reviews.

Goodluck to everyone here though. It's going to be a tense day tomorrow. Hopefully stock is sufficient where if you add one to the basket 5 mins after they're released you don't miss out!
 
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