DDR4 Recommendations for Asus/Ryzen combo

[Andybtsn]

Hi all,

Current spec:

ASUS PRIME B550M-A
AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6 CORE 4.2GHZ
ADATA GAMMIX 16GB (2X8GB) 3600MHZ

I bought an extra 2 x 8 GB sticks to expand my RAM to 32 GB. However, my PC became unstable, a lot of restarts that only occurred after the new RAM was installed. I returned it after the supplier told me "I see you are using a Ryzen CPU. Unfortunately, these are finicky when trying to run 4 DIMMS of RAM, usually involving loosening the timings or the speed down from 3600 to 3200mhz or sometimes even 3000mhz. If you require upgrading to 32GB of RAM, I'd highly suggest replacing the RAM you currently have with 2x16GB sticks."

Is this accurate info?

Do I go with their recommendations and just replace the RAM with 2 x 16gb sticks? Seems a waste of the extra slots.

Thanks,

Andy

 

[Andybtsn]

if you update your bios to support 5000 series cpu's and got a 5800/5900x you can run 4 dimms and to great affect, when i had my 5950x build i used some team group ripped ddr4 from ocuk its 3600mhz cl14 and i managed to get all 4 working together and saw around 10% better performance vs 2 sticks in games and benchmarks.

asus arn't bad, just need to check bios updates everynow and then, if the system is stable thers no need to update, my old setup had the asus crosshair extreme x570 with the above

I did update the BIOS, but I never altered the speeds though so maybe this could have resolved matters