What RAM are you getting/bought for Ryzen

Monstermunch · 1 May 2017 at 16:50

Vogelbekdier said:
Thanks, I'm currently in Holland and noticed my local tech store got G.Skill Flare X and G.Skill Trident Z in stock. I also heard some good stories about OCuK Team Group Dark Pro DDR4. I got the Asrock x370 Professional Gamer MB and would like to get the most reliable "out of the box" working DDR4 at 3200 Mhz any suggestions?

There seem to be quite a few people already using Trident Z successfully, might buy that myself.

Vogelbekdier · 1 May 2017 at 17:01

Monstermunch said:
There seem to be quite a few people already using Trident Z successfully, might buy that myself.

It's by far the cheapest, nearly twice as cheap as G.Skill FlareX so that be great! It's unfortunate that buying DDR4 for AMD Ryzen is basically a lottery at this stage.

cimurray · 1 May 2017 at 17:13

Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 16GB (2x8GB) Vengeance LPX.

Maxed out at 1464MHz (2928DDR) at command rate of 1T. Can't find setting on motherboard to reduce to 2T which is needed to hit 3200 specified.

Monstermunch · 1 May 2017 at 19:02

cimurray said:
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 16GB (2x8GB) Vengeance LPX.

Maxed out at 1464MHz (2928DDR) at command rate of 1T. Can't find setting on motherboard to reduce to 2T which is needed to hit 3200 specified.

Read back in this thread and other threads, lots of people not being able to max out their Corsair ram and some people not even managing to boot. Other makes sound a lot safer.

cimurray · 1 May 2017 at 22:11

Monstermunch said:
Read back in this thread and other threads, lots of people not being able to max out their Corsair ram and some people not even managing to boot. Other makes sound a lot safer.

As I said that is probably because the memory can't be set to the correct parameters as there is no setting (certainly not in my motherboard, the Asus X370-Pro) to alter the command state from T1 to T2. Corsair are quite clear about the settings the ram needs. I expect this will be added in due course as this is a necessary parameter to control if one is to overclock stably.

nkuk · 3 May 2017 at 12:35

Smffy said:
It can run at 3600 if you change BLK instead of just ratio... it's not exactly easy but it works. So choosing 2666 with 125 clock for example. Does anyone know when the mystical update is in May?

For example:
https://hwbot.org/news/14772_skatterbencher_9_amd_ryzen_7_1700_overclocked_4ghz/

I'd like to do a BLK overclock rather than ratio, but have an NVMe M.2 SSD which will have stability and data loss issues if its clock is raised more than a couple of percent at most.

Smffy · 3 May 2017 at 12:40

nkuk said:
I'd like to do a BLK overclock rather than ratio, but have an NVMe M.2 SSD which will have stability and data loss issues if its clock is raised more than a couple of percent at most.

Mine seems alright... Got two of them, but hopefully May update will sort that out.

mandaloris · 4 May 2017 at 12:28

Building 2 Ryzen rigs with Asus C6H atm and bought 2 sets of these:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-black-my-08f-tg.html

On first launch, 2 stick run at 2133 but a quick tweak in bios and they happily go to 3200

Haven't had time yet to tweak timings too much.

With 4 sticks (4x8GB) it has no problem reaching 2666.

scrivz69 · 4 May 2017 at 16:39

Well I bought some Gskill tridentZ RGB 3000mhz just put the system together and it won't boot with both stick of ram in, will boot with either stick but not both at the same time. Any ideas guys.

Vogelbekdier · 4 May 2017 at 16:49

scrivz69 said:
Well I bought some Gskill tridentZ RGB 3000mhz just put the system together and it won't boot with both stick of ram in, will boot with either stick but not both at the same time. Any ideas guys.

What type did you buy CL14 or CL16?

scrivz69 · 4 May 2017 at 17:01

Says CL15 on the box

scrivz69 · 4 May 2017 at 17:01

F4-3000c15D-16GTZR to be exact.

SupraWez · 4 May 2017 at 17:04

mandaloris said:
Building 2 Ryzen rigs with Asus C6H atm and bought 2 sets of these:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-black-my-08f-tg.html

I have gone for this with a CH6 and 1700, will post up how I get on.

Vogelbekdier · 4 May 2017 at 17:21

scrivz69 said:
F4-3000c15D-16GTZR to be exact.

I think you bought the wrong type AMD Ryzen seems to like CAS 14 type F4-3200C14D-32GTZR.

scrivz69 · 4 May 2017 at 17:26

Oh dear

Vogelbekdier · 4 May 2017 at 18:07

Vogelbekdier said:
I think you bought the wrong type AMD Ryzen seems to like CAS 14 type F4-3200C14D-32GTZR.

scrivz69 said:
Oh dear

The memory you bought is Samsung E-Die, dual rank, double sided. You want Samsung B-Die, single rank, single sided.

scrivz69 · 4 May 2017 at 18:15

Any idea were I can get some mate or a part number, a total school boy error on my part, it's working fine with one stick so thats a bonus until I can find some more.

Vogelbekdier · 4 May 2017 at 18:50

scrivz69 said:
Any idea were I can get some mate or a part number, a total school boy error on my part, it's working fine with one stick so thats a bonus until I can find some more.

G.Skill Flare X 3200 MHz CL14 (F4-3200C14D-16GFX), G.Skill Trident Z 3000 MHz CL14 (F4-3000C14D-16GTZ), G.Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CL14 (F4-3200C14D-16GTZ), G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 MHz CL14 (F4-3200C14D-16GVK).
These are Samsung B-Die, single rank, single sided CL14 3000-3200Mhz, I left out the color coding at the end but if you want RGB its F4-3200C14D-16GTZR. You can get different CAS timing sets but CL14 seems to work the best and uneven Cas timings don't seem to work at all for some.

scrivz69 · 4 May 2017 at 18:51

Thanks mate, why does it have to be so bloody complicated. I just want something that works now.

Edit, according to this list the ram I have is single sided, jesus lol https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/62vp2g/clearing_up_any_samsung_bdie_confusion_eg_on/

Vogelbekdier · 4 May 2017 at 18:56

scrivz69 said:
Thanks mate, why does it have to be so bloody complicated.

I feel you. Hopefully, things will get better soon. "We will continue to update you on future AGESA releases when they’re complete, and we’re already working hard to bring you a May release that focuses on overclocked DDR4 memory." - Quoted from the AMD Community website.