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Paul Nur
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I have an ITX build with a AMD Ryzen 7 1700X which I believe the max speeds it supports is DDR4-2666

 

Is there any downside to throwing in some G.Skill (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600 other than wasting money and over kill?

 

Currently G.Skill (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2132 and have been running into some nasty stuttering issues with my GTX 1070 at max settings and 1080p resolution.

 

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Nope, no issues at all with running RAM at lower than its rated speed.

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3 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Nope, no issues at all with running RAM at lower than its rated speed.

Thank you!

 

Also, anytime I touch the XMP profile no matter what I select the PC wont boot. I have no idea what to do other than just throwing some faster memory into it.

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2 minutes ago, Paul Nur said:

Thank you!

 

Also, anytime I touch the XMP profile no matter what I select the PC wont boot. I have no idea what to do other than just throwing some faster memory into it.

XMP is basically just a pre-set overclocking profile, and 1st-gen Ryzen has lots of issues with it. (especially with RAM sticks designed with only intel in mind)

Try manually bumping up voltage to your RAM and memory controller, and seeing if you can run at 2666Mhz. You might not even need to buy new RAM. There are YouTube tutorials for how to do this.

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Lenovo Yoga 7 Air: Ryzen 7840S, 32GiB DDR5

 

Desktop (Old but I never replaced it):

Delidded Core i7 4770K - GTX 1070 ROG Strix - 16GB DDR3 @2000Mhz

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16 minutes ago, Paul Nur said:

Also, anytime I touch the XMP profile no matter what I select the PC wont boot. I have no idea what to do other than just throwing some faster memory into it.

you should be able to set which XMP frequency you want to use. 

 

first gen memmory controller can go to about 3000mhz. 2933mhz should be fine. 

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32 minutes ago, Paul Nur said:

I have an ITX build with a AMD Ryzen 7 1700X which I believe the max speeds it supports is DDR4-2666

 

Is there any downside to throwing in some G.Skill (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600 other than wasting money and over kill?

 

Currently G.Skill (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2132 and have been running into some nasty stuttering issues with my GTX 1070 at max settings and 1080p resolution.

 

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there is no such  thing as overkill :)

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I have ASRock Fatal1ty B450 gaming-itx/ac and Ryzen 7 1700x

 

What is the best memory I should be putting in my system. I just saw on AMD's website and wikichip "Max Type DDR4-2666". I just took delivery of my Ripjaw memory 3600 today from NewEgg. I feel like I am just wasting money at this point if I throw it in.

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9 hours ago, Paul Nur said:

I have ASRock Fatal1ty B450 gaming-itx/ac and Ryzen 7 1700x

 

What is the best memory I should be putting in my system. I just saw on AMD's website and wikichip "Max Type DDR4-2666". I just took delivery of my Ripjaw memory 3600 today from NewEgg. I feel like I am just wasting money at this point if I throw it in.

You'll probably be able to run it at 2933 tbh

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