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I am waiting for my new rams to get shipped in a couple of days but my current rams(corsair value select 2133 c15) aren't officially supported by my cpu(3900x) according to this list (from amd site), thou my computer runs fine.

Does it hurt the memory controller or the cpu to do that ? or only the performances ?

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5 minutes ago, SnooPainting8310 said:

I am waiting for my new rams to get shipped in a couple of days but my current rams(corsair value select 2133 c15) aren't officially supported by my cpu(3900x) according to this list (from amd site), thou my computer runs fine.

Does it hurt the memory controller or the cpu to do that ? or only the performances ?

Nope it won't hurt anything. Officially Supported RAM just means AMD and/or its partners have taken the time to validate which RAM kits work with Ryzen processors. They can't test every RAM kit on the market. So if you have a kit that's not listed, it should still work in theory because DDR4 is DDR4. Whether or not in practice it's stable would be an unknown because Ryzen is picky in terms of memory. Hence why that list is so important. But if it's been working for you and you've run memory diagnostics to test for stability with zero issues, I would say you've lucked out. 

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Should work just fine, these were probably just validated to work with an AMD cpu,  doesn't mean other ram kits wont work/ hurt anything. 

 it should work just fine.  

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1 minute ago, SnooPainting8310 said:

I am waiting for my new rams to get shipped in a couple of days but my current rams(corsair value select 2133 c15) aren't officially supported by my cpu(3900x) according to this list (from amd site), thou my computer runs fine.

Does it hurt the memory controller or the cpu to do that ? or only the performances ?

It just means they haven't specifically tested this RAM, nothing more.

 

The fact that it's 2133Mhz memory though does hurt performance; so I would suggest a different kit just because of that reason.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3508-ryzen-3000-memory-benchmark-best-ram-fclk-uclock-mclock

 

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Just one example, which shows the game Warhammer 2 (which is very CPU heavy).

2133Mhz isn't on the chart, but 2400Mhz is the closest; that  scores quite a bit lower than even a basic 3200Mhz kit.

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