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G.Skill Readies AMD EXPO Memory that Applies "Zen 4" DDR5-6000 "Sweetspot" Settings

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They said if you go above 6000 that you can't do one to one so how in the hell is 6000 The Sweet spot? If anything that's really the maximum allowed and would make me worry that there might be cases where that could even be an issue. It just seems like if 6000 is really the maximum that 5600 would be more of The Sweet spot technically.

With sweetspot they mean the best possible settings. Just like a 2700X the sweetspot seems to be 3433Mhz or so; even tho you can go beyond or up to 3700Mhz, above the sweetspot so far does'nt yield you the any much more really.
 

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They could just advertise XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO capable and that's it. Besides that, AMD specific modules might be bad marketing, it's not long ago when many users had proplems with RAM not specifically optimized for AMD CPUs... RAM is like storage, it should be able to perform optimal with every platform (taking of course into account the platform's capabilities).
Well, it's hard advertising something that wasn't ready until potentially very recently, while XMP 3.0 has been out since around the Alder Lake launch.
I'm sure we'll see modules that launch after the AM5 platform will have support for both XMP 3.0 and EXPO, as it makes no sense that the memory makers have AMD and Intel specific RAM moving forward.
 
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Makes sense


Might as well come up with XMP profiles that match what the CPU's can do with 1:1 IF and lower timings, while having a higher MHz looser timings option in XMP2

With sweetspot they mean the best possible settings. Just like a 2700X the sweetspot seems to be 3433Mhz or so; even tho you can go beyond or up to 3700Mhz, above the sweetspot so far does'nt yield you the any much more really.
3600 is the generally accepted sweet spot, with 3900 being the maximum outside of golden chips


Interestingly i've found CPU temperatures directly relate to the RAM speed stability, If i use cTDP and limit my CPU's temp to 70C, i can clock it to 3933 stable - but only 3800 is stable at 75C
 
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