Which RAM for Asus Prime B450M-A?

[petrikos]

Budget (including currency): Budget

Country: Greece

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Light gaming, Music production, office and photoshop

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Hello everyone.

I was between two options of RAM (G.Skill F4-3000C16D-16GTZR and Corsair CMW16GX4M2C3000C15) at 3000MHz because the 3200MHz versions are not in the QVL list.
Looking at their websites I found out that both can fit in my motherboard.
It's the Corsair CMW16GX4M2Z3200C16 and the G.Skill F4-3200C16D-16GTZR.
Which one would be better? I see many youtubers use the G.Skill. Is it more compatible and stable?
What about the 3600MHz versions? They are in the QVL and prices are not too far. Do you thing 32GB will be essential in the close future?

APU: Ryzen 5 3400G

[Guest]

Always check PCPartPicker for compatibility. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mJGxFT/asus-prime-b450m-a-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-prime-b450m-a

 

Your motherboard supports up to DDR4-3200, so get whatever is fastest and then narrow it down to whatever has the lowest CAS latency.

[boggy77]

qvl list doesn't matter that much. what CPU are you using?

[Jurrunio]

That board's power delivery is so bad especially for an APU (unless you're using the dual core Athlons)... Just get the cheapest 3000MHz+ memory kit, that board has to go.

 

24 minutes ago, petrikos said:

Which one would be better? I see many youtubers use the G.Skill. Is it more compatible and stable?

What about the 3600MHz versions? They are in the QVL and prices are not too far. Do you thing 32GB will be essential in the close future?

APU: Ryzen 5 3400G

Stability is the same, G skill just spent more.in marketing memory. Forget running 3600MHz on Zen+ and a low.end board like this, the memory controller is already weak and the board doesnt make it easier. 32GB could.be useful but with a quad core CPU, you'll be CPU bottlenecked first in productivity work. 16GB is enough for.now.

[petrikos]

Thank you.

The motherboard was suggested by an "expert". After buying it I began to see myself its weakness in many aspects, but it was too late.

Ok, I am on a budget but there were better options.

[brob]

The G.Skill website includes motherboard qvl data on each memory kit page, e.g. https://www.gskill.com/qvl/165/166/1536654268/F4-3200C16D-16GTZR-Qvl.

 

Pick the least expensive memory kit. Performance differences between DDR4-3000, DDR4-3200, and DDR4-3600, CL 16/18 are not noticeable the vast majority of time, even with higher performance cpu and gpu.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, petrikos said:

Thank you.

The motherboard was suggested by an "expert". After buying it I began to see myself its weekness in many aspects, but it was too late.

Ok, I am on a budget but there were better options.

The list btw