ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS DDr4 3200or no

[theateam794]

got the asus prime B350 plus then went thought crucial comparability mode to ensure I got ram that would work with the board.

so now I found out after ordering 2666 ram and it has been dispatched that I should have ordered 3200 due to cpu speed bottleneck issues.

checking the crucial site againI see they did have 3200 but maybe it wasn't show because i selected 16gb kit and it was out of stock.I just assumed the 2600 one the parts chooser selected was good mistake?

friend said I should have got corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 although Im seeing reports of some people having to run it at almost 3000 or 2666 anyway (also does ram need a fan?)
tldr;should I return the 2666 ram and order some 3200?

Thanks

 

[Sedivy]

First of all don't panic in advance. If your particular ram model number was found on the qvl compatibility list from asus, then you're good. Make sure your bios on your board is up to date. If for whatever reason you find you have issues with your shiny new memory, like once you build the system, the error light on the mobo lights up for memory, or your system is freezing frequently and so on, then you can think about returning it to crucial and getting a different one. But don't stress yourself out in advance if you know it's on the compatibility list already. Some info may be out of date. A lot of issues with ryzen and memory compatibility have been ironed out since ryzen's release, through various bios updates for the motherboards. So don't worry yet, see what you get once you assemble the rig.

 

[jankerson]

In use one won't normally see the difference in ram speed so I am not sure what they ment by bottlenecking issues.

Now on a high end machine playing games with a high end GPU there could be some frame rate drops in gaming in certain games.

Other than that, unlikely you will see any difference.

 

[DRagor]

B250 or B350?
B250 is for Intel Kaby Lake, and will not use ram faster then 2400 Mhz anyway.
B350 is for Ryzen, and can run in theory 3200 Mhz, in practice it may be less.

 

[Calvin7]

Memory for PRIME B250-PLUS
4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 2400/2133 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory *

* Due to Intel chipset limitation, DDR4 2400MHz memory frequency is only supported by 7th Generation Intel processors. Higher memory modules will run at the maximum transfer rate of DDR4 2400MHz.
** Due to Intel chipset limitation, DDR4 2133MHz and higher memory modules on 6th Generation Intel processors will run at the maximum transfer rate of DDR4 2133MHz.

 

[Sedivy]

I checked the qvl list from asus and assuming one of these is the one you got:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/BLE4G4D26AFEA
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/BLE8G4D26AFEA
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/blt4g4d26afta
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/blt8g4d26afta
you should be just fine. If for whatever reason the board does not support 2666, it'll downclock to 2400. One of the bios updates this year does talk about improved dram compatibility so make sure you update your bios to latest version.

 

[theateam794]

first sorry yeah I meant B350 I corrected it!

@jankerson by ram bottleneck I think they mean lower frames/drops in games,

after I made the mistake I have been googling like crazy and most people say the $20 premium difference was worth it for the performance gain 3200 ram would give.

@Sedivy I can't find it...seems like they updated their site since I last used it now for items out of stock it just displays a blank listing and looks like they sold out of almost everything listed as compatible 😵 but the ram I ordered was CT9997930 "upgrade for asus prime B350-plus 2-8gb ddr4-2666 1.2v" it would sold as compatible for the board.

still wondering if I should stick with it or send it back for a Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 2x8 set, I get mixed opinions depending on who/where i ask

thanks for the responses!

 

[Sedivy]

If you're talking about gaming it'll translate to only a few fps. Here's a nice video showing the difference at 1080p gaming in a similar jump in memory speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLg1YwH0QOA

 

[DRagor]

I suppose you have that 2666 ram and the rest of components at hand? So I would check if the ram you have works stable at 2666 MHz. If it does, considering you may encounter problems with making faster ram to actually work with faster speeds, it would not be worth to look for another one IMO. It's not even a matter of money, bigger problem here could be the amount of work you would need to do to make the system work stable at higher speeds. With Ryzen it is often not so simple as with Intel builds, where you just turn XMP on in BIOS and in 99% of rigs you don't need anything else.

 

[fndasilva]

got the asus prime B350 plus then went thought crucial comparability mode to ensure I got ram that would work with the board.

so now I found out after ordering 2666 ram and it has been dispatched that I should have ordered 3200 due to cpu speed bottleneck issues.

checking the crucial site againI see they did have 3200 but maybe it wasn't show because i selected 16gb kit and it was out of stock.I just assumed the 2600 one the parts chooser selected was good mistake?

friend said I should have got corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 although Im seeing reports of some people having to run it at almost 3000 or 2666 anyway (also does ram need a fan?)
tldr;should I return the 2666 ram and order some 3200?

Thanks

I got a problem with high speed Ram. I got a Kingston hyperx predator 3600mhz but got only 2933 with cl 15-15-15-15-36-64. With last bios December 2017. I tried manual and xmp profile, none worked. Not even 3200mhz.
Wanting for some new bios update.