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  • boozed - Saturday, September 23, 2017 - link

    Huh?

    I thought we left desktop memory incompatibility in the 90s...
  • Paul Tarnowski - Saturday, September 23, 2017 - link

    @boozed Tell that to the 32GB that wouldn't work with my 2400K and Asus MB that I had lying around until I installed it into client comps.
  • Slaveguy - Saturday, September 23, 2017 - link

    I thought I left you in the tip of a condom in the 90s... we're both wrong.
  • Omoronovo - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link

    The problem is that until June, 2017, JEDEC didn't have formally-defined specifications for DDR4 higher than DDR4-2666. These products - even intel ones - have been in development since well before then, and so any module above 2666 is technically not guaranteed to be following any kind of standard. That's impossible to build for. Additionally, the DDR4-3200 JEDEC standard sets timings to be 20-20-20-44, incredibly anemic to say the least. With this being AMD's first DDR4-equipped platform, it's going to take time for them to dial in out-of-bounds memory speeds to get compatibility up to the levels of intel hardware, which memory manufacturers have had many, many years to get to know. Until that happens for AMD, it's nice to see memory manufacturers taking the time to test/validate their ram on AMD platforms so that we don't have to.

    Worth noting that adding RGB LED's to ram also adds a surprising amount of pain points to compatibility, mainly around ripple suppression caused by the voltage of LED's changing depending on the current colour. This causes clock skew, since the power still has to come from the same socket that powers the modules themselves, and leads to unstable peaks/troughs in the waveform.
  • realistz - Saturday, September 23, 2017 - link

    Mediocre speed. AMD offering only yesterday's performance meh nothing exciting coming out of that company.
  • milkywayer - Sunday, September 24, 2017 - link

    Kicked Intel in the back hard enough to make it lower their $1700 CPU line to $1000. That's enough for me. Thanks AMD <3
  • Drumsticks - Sunday, September 24, 2017 - link

    Hell, I'm a fairly big proponent of Skylake-X in that I actually see value in the higher SKUs, but even with that said, what would you call Intel's current HEDT lineup if Threadripper is "yesterday's performance?"
  • DanNeely - Sunday, September 24, 2017 - link

    In context, I suspect he's trolling over ram speeds. Intel's ram controller can be pushed an additional 1.4 GHz beyond spec. Which's kinda sad because AMD benefits a lot more from ultra high speed ram if only indirectly (the cross die interconnect runs at the speed of the ram bus).
  • Oxford Guy - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link

    It will be interesting to see how those 1.5V sets work with the memory controllers. Hopefully they won't burn them out.
  • Oxford Guy - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link

    RGB... Yippee!
  • svan1971 - Monday, September 25, 2017 - link

    funny their rgb lighting software is still very much beta and has not been updated since may.
  • Manch - Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - link

    Ugghh, RGB. As other articles, and posters have mentioned, RGB can limit the RAM. I don't need my system to look like TRON or a Furry/DDR concert. Sell fast RAM w/ good timings and no RGB!!! I'll buy it!

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