I´ve just did an upgrade of my MB (Asus TUF z590 plus WIFI) and CPU (i5 11600K) and thought i could reuse the memory I had previusly … 4 sticks of 8gb
Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 Mhz. But unfortunately the MB only supperted two uf these sticks, So…
I want to go back to 32 gb or mayby even upgrade to 64gb
But, should i choose 2 sticks or 4 sticks?
And what about timings, is CL16 like the LPX i had ok?
Should i stick to 3200 mhz or go for 3600?
BR and happy flying
if you gonna upgrade ram , check your motherboard specs on max mhz for ram and to safe yourself from headaches get a set from the quality vendor list that your motherboard has.
faster mhz is better , then your buget will tell you which ones to get.
Ok, thanks
But the asus qualified vendor list is rather limited, so and seems to qualify mostly the more expensive ram, so i guess i have no choise here?
That motherboard has 4 memory slots though - are you saying 2 of your existing sticks are faulty?
EDIT: 3600Mhz @ C18 is about the same as 3200MHz @ C16 if that helps
I am saying i have 4 identical 8 gb sticks identical vendor, model and timings and all 3200 mhz but two are version 4,32 the other two is 4,24 and only the two ver 4,32 works in the new mb, all 4 stiks works great together in my old asus z170 mb.
Ah ok, that’s odd. Not come across that before, but I’m no expert.
3600 obviously faster, but if it is CL18, then not much between that and 3200 @ CL16. CL18 at 3600 seems more common (just looking at this myself). I’m considering upgrading to 64Gb with this:
Do you have the same mb ?
I i am thinking about upgrading to all new ram sticks and considering 64gb also, but should i go for 2sticks of 32gb or 4 of 16?
No my mb is MSI. I find this article which suggests that 4 sticks is no worse and sometimes better than 2, but there are a lot of variables making comparison difficult.
If guess that 2 x 32 is more expensive than 4 x 16 though - although doesn’t look like by very much.
Feels like 4 sticks won’t hurt and might gain a little and be slightly cheaper
I was told 4 sticks are better too because it can use the speed of 4 sticks for the same amount of data instead of routing all the data through less sticks (4 pipes can take more water than two at the same time at the same size)
But if you have super fast RAM and your moboard or other hardware can‘t keep the speed it‘s wasted money
yes, that’s pretty ,uch what that article says, although there are more moving parts than that
I added the last sentence when you already had replied, sry 
I guess all this seems a little teoretical for me, maybe i should focus on getting some ram sticks that will work with my mb and fits my budget:+1:
Problem SOLVED with memory.
Removed the Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO, loosened the nuts that hold the bracket to the board, reseated the heat sink and didn’t tighten the screws that hold the cooler to the bracket as much. Then I moved the DIMM from B1 to A2 and…viola. It worked. All 4 sticks of 8GB running Dual channel mode at XMP 3200mhz, so RAM is fixed for now the 64GB upgrade must wait, first of if a new GPU when they ever will be awaliable.
