Question Good memory for B450M Steel legend

[Manney200]

As the title says, does anyone know good memory that would work with this board? Currently on Corsair Vengeance LPX C16, and cannot get them stable at 3200mhz no matter what I do. Currently running them at 3000mhz, but am suffering performance loss at high fps(Valorant, Overwatch). Any recommendations/help would be great.

CPU- Ryzen 3600
GPU - RTX 2070 super

 

[Deleted member 362816]

I have used that board and never had an issues even with your exact memory kit with by just using the XMP profiles.

 

[egda23]

Did you have a look on the QVL for your motherboard ?
https://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/b450m steel legend/#MemoryMS

 

[King_V]

My son's computer is using the B450M Steel Legend, and using this RAM, which I think is the same as yours:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mtp323/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2b3200c16r

(the letter at the end of the part number may be different, that only represents the color of the heatsink)

When he had the 1600AF CPU, it would not run stable at the XMP setting for 3200, so we had to back it down to 3066 to get it to be stable.

This weekend, we swapped in a 5600X. It works fine at the XMP 3200 setting.

I suspect it boils down to the memory controller on the CPU. I'm a little surprised that the 3600 is having trouble with it, but I think the 1600AF in my son's machine had a memory controller that couldn't quite manage 3200MHz RAM. I would've assumed that the 3600 could handle it fine.