A320: RAM Overclockable?

Jyadel · March 9, 2020

I was looking at the ASUS Prime A320I-K and it lists high-speed RAM as being compatible. I thought the A320 chipset was locked, or is that only for the CPUs?

Vejnemojnen · March 9, 2020

Only for the CPU. BUT why would you buy that board? If you are after an ITX AM4 board, I would not go below Asrock B450i Fatal1ty Gaming ITX-AC. Even that one is not that great, compared to MSI's B450 Gaming Plus ITX

where are you located? prices? Any available B450 ITX boards?

nick name · March 9, 2020

You're not looking to put a Ryzen 3000 CPU in it are you?

Jyadel · March 9, 2020

32 minutes ago, Vejnemojnen said:

Only for the CPU. BUT why would you buy that board? If you are after an ITX AM4 board, I would not go below Asrock B450i Fatal1ty Gaming ITX-AC. Even that one is not that great, compared to MSI's B450 Gaming Plus ITX

where are you located? prices? Any available B450 ITX boards?

It's for an SFF build that will be used for basic desktop use and light gaming/workloads. There is space for a decent cooler, but I'm not sure it'd be able to dissipate heat from an OC'd CPU. Any Ryzen chip I put in would likely be ran at stock speeds, so I wasn't sure if an A320 board with OC'd RAM would be better than say a locked Intel CPU with 2666 RAM.