Specific ram compatibility question for Ryzen.

Ry. · April 21, 2017

Hi,

I'm planning to build a system with the Ryzen 5 1600. After going through some motherboards available in my area (India) settled on this-

Gigabyte GA-AB350-GAMING 3.

Picking ram has been somewhat confusing. I keep hearing a lot about ram compatibility issues for ryzen. Here are a few choices I've shortlisted with somewhat similar prices.

2 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz C16 Memory - Red (CMK8GX4M1A2400C16R)

2 x Crucial Ballistix Tactical 8GB DDR4-2666 Desktop RAM (BLT8G4D26AFTA)

Klevv Cras DDR4 16GB (8GB X 2) 2800MHZ White led (KM4C8GX2N-2800-16-16-16-36-1)

G.skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3000MHz Desktop RAM (F4-3000C16D-16GTZR)

I would really like to get the gskill rgb ones but not sure if they work with ryzen and this board. Also read in a forum about the module itself failing, not just the rgb lights. Has anyone used this ram with ryzen and faced issues? Please advise...

Another question is whether I can overclock with this motherboard? I know technically its supported by the chipset, want to know to what extent assuming the processor is good for it. Got a hyper 212 evo lying around so might as well look into it.

Other parts I already have are: FSP Aurum 700W psu, Asus R9 280x DirectCU2, Samsung 850 evo 250gb and a Circle Stealth cabinet.

tom_w141 · April 21, 2017

@Ry.

http://rymem.vraith.com is great for checking/finding the best RAM for ryzen.

Searching by your motherboard specifically:

http://rymem.vraith.com/specific/13

Any RAM on that list means actual users have achieved or exceeded the RAM's rated speed.

EDIT: Top 10 overall:

http://rymem.vraith.com/basic/top10

EDIT 2:

For the best feature set and overclocking results stretch to an X370 if you can allow. Motherboard is more of an investment with AM4 because the socket is guaranteed for 4 years minimum, so its definitely worth buying a good 1 to start with.

Cheapest good X370: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kZKhP6/asrock-fatal1ty-x370-gaming-k4-atx-am4-motherboard-fatal1ty-x370-gaming-k4

Ry. · April 21, 2017

Thank you for the links @tom_w141

Although other than the crucial ram, I cant get a direct hit on the other serial numbers. Will play around there a bit.

And the cheapest x370 board available to me is the

Asus Prime X370-Pro 7th Gen

which is 50% costlier than the gigabite one. (In rupees 13200 and 8820 respectively). SLI/Crossfire is kinda useless to me, and I don't plan to push the CPU to the limit. May be around 3.6-3.8 max. Not much of an overclocker here. Just want to try it out.

Other than this is there any other difference to consider the x370 boards? Actually instead of the board I can consider the 1700, if I pick a base level memory kit for the price diff.

tom_w141 · April 21, 2017

7 minutes ago, Ry. said:

Thank you for the links @tom_w141

Although other than the crucial ram, I cant get a direct hit on the other serial numbers. Will play around there a bit.

And the cheapest x370 board available to me is the

Asus Prime X370-Pro 7th Gen

which is 50% costlier than the gigabite one. (In rupees 13200 and 8820 respectively). SLI/Crossfire is kinda useless to me, and I don't plan to push the CPU to the limit. May be around 3.6-3.8 max. Not much of an overclocker here. Just want to try it out.

Other than this is there any other difference to consider the x370 boards? Actually instead of the board I can consider the 1700, if I pick a base level memory kit for the price diff.

1700 is the way to go. If you are going to overclock then there is very little point in the 1700X or 1800X my 1700 is at 4GHz. 23% of 1800Xs can achieve 4.1GHz. $160-200 for 100MHz? Definitely not worth it! Better to take the money and invest in a solid motherboard. The X370s have better VRMs and will overclock better than the B350s even if you dont care about the SLI. X370s can also adjust the BCLK which adds a whole extra level of system tuning.