The Building Of A New Beast (Phase VI)

Next parcel.. the final quarter of the brain.. a dual stick 16Gb's worth of Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666Mhz memory. As with the hard drive you can't in all seriousness make this sexy either, nor say much about it except reasons..

I'd considered going with the faster memory until it came to addressing Asus and Corsair QVL's. With a few specific sets to choose from the pricing looked even more awful than it had before I'd consulted their safety nets, a condition which all PC enthusiasts have been suffering with for over a year now - along with GPU increases memory pricing has pretty much doubled which is something of a bitter pill to swallow, but the system isn't going anywhere without any so what do you do? Ryzen is often said to be happier when you throw it the fastest memory it can handle (which is about 3200Mhz at time of writing) and in the quest to decide what to get I had to balance how much I felt I reasonably needed to get the project off the ground (which kept pulling me to the cheaper initial investment of 8Gb) vs the notion of 16Gb, where the industry is leaning and looking. Ultimately I opted to bite the quantity bullet and a (hopefully) hassle-free bet from both Asus and Corsair's lists. To be honest XMP'ing to 2666Mhz isn't anything to be sniffed at, and is certainly a part of a system which will be infinitely faster than the poor bugger I'm typing this blog on.