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The Best Memory for AMD Ryzen – A Beginner's Guide to RAM Performance



The AMD Ryzen 5000 series might facing availability shortages but that’s bound to change soon. In this Ryzen memory buying guide for beginners we cover memory performance for dual rank vs single rank, the best speed and how to buy with memory latency in mind along with plenty of RAM benchmarks to help through the process. All of this should lead to picking the best memory for Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X but it will also help with the Ryzen 3000 series too.

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Ryzen Memory Intro
2:00 – The Memory Kits We Use
3:21 – Memory Ranks Explained
4:38 – Ryzen Memory Ranks MATTER
5:30 – Why is Dual Rank Faster?
6:35 – Single vs Dual Rank Benchmarks on Ryzen
8:49 – The Best Memory…

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