What memory do I get?

[Giganthrax]

I wanna get 16 gigs of DDR4 for my Ryzen 1600x + Asus X370 Pro.

 

However, I've never bought RAM before and a bunch of RAM I looked at states it's made for specific Intel types, while the Qualified Vendor List list on my mobo's website has two different lists, one for standard Ryzen, and another for the 2000 series.

 

I'm extremely confused by this. I thought all DDR4 RAM was compatible with any DD4 processor/mobo. 

 

Am I just getting needlessly confused, or is there a whole field of RAM compatibility I was unaware of?

[CheeseburgerChad]

Can you give the link to these compatibility lists that you found? As far as I'm aware all DDR4 should be universally compatible although some motherboards/cpus will only support up to a certain speed. I haven't seen cpu-specific ram for many years now.

[Crunchy Dragon]

RAM is RAM, the worst that'll happen is that you have to overclock it to run at the advertised speed depending on what speed you get.

[Reznik]

If you purchase from QVL list it will be more likely to run at the advertised speed.  For example, first gen Ryzen was a bit picky with RAM so it was advisable to play it safe and get go with something on the list.  

[Zmax]

Don't buy on line. Go to a store. The reason is that if your Ram don't work you can exchange with a lot less problem.

[Giganthrax]

Yeah, I'm buying in store.

 

This is the mobo QVL: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/PRIME_X370-PRO/Memory-QVL.pdf

 

And the mobo 2000 series processors QVL: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/PRIME_X370-PRO/Memory-QVL-for-AMD-Ryzen-2000-Series-Processors.pdf

 

Here are some of the RAM I was checking out:

 

https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3200c16d-16gtzb  - the QVL shows mobos different from my own

 

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/vengeance-lpx-black/p/CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 - this one actually doesn't show in the mobo QVL file, but other similar models do

 

https://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/HX432C16PB3K2_16.pdf - this one fits with the mobo QVL for 2000 series processors, but not for the standard series? Is that something I need to worry about?