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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by wmf on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:59PM (#50446252)
(AM4 was 3600 MT/s; AM5 is 6000 MT/s.)
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by Covzire on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:03PM (#50446298)
Reported even on AM5, you can only get 6000 Mt/s with 2 sticks, attempting to run all 4 slots on most boards won't work unless you slow them down to base JEDEC speeds.
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:40PM (#50447325)
Can confirm, had this issue on an ASRock DeskMeet X600.
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by papascrubs on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:00PM (#50447521)
Really? I'm running 4x 24GB sticks at 6000 with no issues. These were on the certified list for the motherboard.

https://valid.cpuid.com/sdyce7k2

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by mldbk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:05PM (#50447580)
4 x 32GB G.Skill Flare 6000CL30 are running on Asus TUF B650E with 6000CL34
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by codebje on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:37PM (#50448344)
AM5 is 3600MT/s for 4 sticks; check the specification of a CPU of interest to you, expand the Connectivity section. For 2 sticks it's 5600MT/s. The Ryzen 9 9950x3d officially only supports 5600 or 3600.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/90...

Obviously, you can run memory faster than the officially supported speed, including 4 DIMMS, but the Zen 5 architecture has a reputation for being finicky trying to run 4 DIMMs at higher speeds and you need a bit of care in what you pick and how you tune it.

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by DiabloD3 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:43PM (#50449825)
I'm running 8000 in 2:1 on my 9800x3D. Slightly better than 6200 1:1 on here, and basically the same as 6400 1:1, but easier to dial in at 8000.

Side note: At 2ghz IF, a single Zen4/5 CCD can saturate 7200 MT DDR5, but the io die is not restricted to that, so x16 and IGPU DMA can still saturate it at 8000.