If you’re thinking of upgrading to AMD’s current AM5 platform, you’re probably researching not just which CPU to buy, along with the supporting motherboard, but also which DDR5 memory kit you’ll need.
To date, we’ve reviewed and tested almost all AM5 processors, along with countless 600 and 800-series motherboards. However, it’s been some time since we looked at memory performance, so today we’ve got a quick update for you, focusing on G.Skill’s new CL26 memory and DDR5-8000 performance.
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This is brutal. I am happy that I have no plans to upgrade till at least Zen 6 (and probably the next AMD GPU generation; this may be my first non-Nvidia GPU since my family switched from S3 ViRGE to Riva TNT a quarter of a century ago).
That switch was pure fire. I went to a tnt2 ultra and I felt like I time travelled.