Hello people!
 
Just saw the good deal that is the EVGA X299 DARK, 151-SX-E299-KR right now. Although all the memory kits in the QVL seem outdated or not suited for my needs. I found two kits that i think would do it (planning to get a 10900x/10920x) but sadly it's not in the QVL.
 
CMW32GX4M4D3600C18
F4-3400C16Q-32GTZKW
 
 
Any input on that ?
 
Thank you!

Best Memory Kit for EVGA X299 Dark.
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 4x8GB 2666MHz C15 - CMD32GX4M4A2666C15.
That's natural kit for X299. Everything above is OC.
 
If someone want to pay more and invest in almost none performance difference could buy same kit only 3200MHz.
I never had idea to invest in memory because better performance and I have one of first DDR4 kit available. 
If 2666MHz is too slow for someone then 3200MHz is reasonable, everything above is for people with deep pocket.
Better is investment 4x16GB slower then if someone plan to stay longer with platform and maybe install one day new Windows with more memory usage.
 
You even could replace silver heatsink with black, Cablemod sell mod kit.
 

I had CORSAIR 2666MHz and GSkill 2800MHz, both QVL for Rampage V X99, and they worked. 
But performance difference in benchmark test was 1-2% in favor of GSkill.
I left Dominator because nicer heatsink and because 2133/2666/3200 worked best on X99 Haswell-E and Broadwell-E.
 
A lot of people struggle with XMP. 
Later they set manual, decrease timmings and command rate and surprise with better results then XMP and ask self why they even bother with XMP.
 
I'm not sure, but I fight with XMP on RVE and suddenly I couldn't change setting with voltage or frequency on processor without BSOD during post.
My motherboard litterary need defibrilator, only defibrilator for RVE was ASUS Flashback Utility far more effective then installing new BIOS with software.
He revive mobo litterary and everything start to work normally. XMP influence on that way that BSOD happen if I downclock CPU with same voltage, any change of frequency. Later when I fix XMP and compare with manual I had little better result because lower timmings and command rate and ask self Why I even used stupid XMP.

Avenger411
Hello again, is there such a thing like old ram ? Is the Ripjaw V series from G.Skill too old for this gen ?

No, not at all..Something like the F4-2400C15D-16GVR Ripjaws V 2 x 8GB kit should be fine..The price at Newegg is great..And, an EVGA X299 is on their QVL here..I wouldn't get anything less than 16GB these days, myself.

Avenger411
well the 10900x being a quad channel, shouldn’t i at least get a 4x*gb kit ?

Yep.

@vlada specs are 2933mhz hence why i’m thinking of getting around 3400

Avenger411
Hello,
 
Finally got this
 
F4-3466C16Q-32GVK
 
On gskill website the X299 dark is on their QVL so let's hope the 10900x/10920x's imc will be able to handle that :) 
 
Thanks for the input everyone.

 
G.Skill is my brand of choice

Dark will happily run 4000mhz quad channel with low cas numbers.No reason to use anything less than a 3200mhz kit otherwise your kneecapping your performance. Fast ram and tightened sutimings will help hugely with frame pacing and help compensate for increased latency the mesh architecture used on the cpus brings. I have a f4-3600C16-32gtzkk kit that will do 4000mhz-C16  memtest stable.
 
What you really want is a nice set of B-Die sticks.

https://benzhaomin.github.io/bdiefinder/
 
Personally i have two of these kits (f4-3600C16-32gtzkk) and they are amazing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073XD8H6V
DDR4000@C16C17C16 1.46v with all the subtimings dropped.
HCI Memtest stable 2000%
 
I believe b-die has been discontinued so its a getting harder to find.

Wondering...
 
F4-3600C16Q-32GVKC *Cas 16-19-19-39 (205$CAD) 
 
vs
 
F4-3466C16Q-32GVK *Cas 16-18-18-38 (280$CAD)
 
I don't know what's up with this but souldn't the 3600mhz kit be more expensive ? even if it has worst timings ? it's 75$, i just find it weird.

Hmm this is sad then.. Majority of new mem kits are those ugly rgb thing ( i don't like it i prefer it dark) :( 

It's funny i was looking at this F4-3733C17Q-32GTZKK exactly pondering if i should put the extra money and if it was worth it. i'm going to watch the links Cool GTX gave on the thread to see if this helps me decided wether or not it's worth.