I want this ram for ryzen, do I need it?

[glytch5]

So, I have a 1700x on the way... I am kinda worried about ram.

I want to try out this G.Skill ram item number: F4-3200C14D-16GFX

I am a huge fan of MSI motherboards... however for AM4: the ONLY board MSI has with that model ram on its supported list is their 400 dollar enthusiast board!

None of MSI's other boards has support for that model ram... as far I know that is the ONLY ram officially meant to work with ryzen from the factory.

I understand other rams will work... but I want that ram!

I am thinking of buying a Gigabyte board, because it has that under its support list... even though really want MSI...

What should I do? You guys got any other ram that is CL 14, at 3200 and has a Samsung die? Thank you!

PS: I do NOT want an ASUS board... just don't sorry.

 

[Seanie280672]

So, I have a 1700x on the way... I am kinda worried about ram.

I want to try out this G.Skill ram item number: F4-3200C14D-16GFX

I am a huge fan of MSI motherboards... however for AM4: the ONLY board MSI has with that model ram on its supported list is their 400 dollar enthusiast board!

None of MSI's other boards has support for that model ram... as far I know that is the ONLY ram officially meant to work with ryzen from the factory.

I understand other rams will work... but I want that ram!

I am thinking of buying a Gigabyte board, because it has that under its support list... even though really want MSI...

What should I do? You guys got any other ram that is CL 14, at 3200 and has a Samsung die? Thank you!

PS: I do NOT want an ASUS board... just don't sorry.

Yes that ram will work fine, its optimised for RyZen and is also Samsung B-Die.

 

[glytch5]

I know it will work.. but its not supported on the board I bought. I bought some trident z 3200. its all on its way!

 

[glytch5]

So... I ended up with the MSI mobo I wanted, and the triden Zs ran just fine with XMP mode active on 3200. Totally stable.
I had to RMA the board unfortunately, the on board video would not work, and for whatever reason with that board, it would not give output to my video card till waaaay after the boot screens. Tooks about 25 seconds to get a monitor.

I tried 2 different displays, different cables and two video cards. I went back to my AMD FX chip on my MSI Pro carbon AM3+ (AM4 was also a pro carbon) and everything works fine.

SUCKS! This was a week ago today... hopefully newegg gets the RMA tomorrow so they can get going on a new board for me. This CPU and ram are just sitting here doing nothing!

PS: I know I know MSI right? I LOVED that board. At 170 bucks, it had some features I liked. They sound dumb but one big one for me is the ram, not only is that board set up for the dimms to go 2/4 (current MSI board set up for 1/3) the x370 had re inforced dims! Putting the rams in made them not flex at all! I love that!
Also each dim has a LED on it to tell you if the ram is seated properly or not... idk why but I love stuff like that. Pray for me the next board works properly! 5

 

[Seanie280672]

So... I ended up with the MSI mobo I wanted, and the triden Zs ran just fine with XMP mode active on 3200. Totally stable.
I had to RMA the board unfortunately, the on board video would not work, and for whatever reason with that board, it would not give output to my video card till waaaay after the boot screens. Tooks about 25 seconds to get a monitor.

I tried 2 different displays, different cables and two video cards. I went back to my AMD FX chip on my MSI Pro carbon AM3+ (AM4 was also a pro carbon) and everything works fine.

SUCKS! This was a week ago today... hopefully newegg gets the RMA tomorrow so they can get going on a new board for me. This CPU and ram are just sitting here doing nothing!

PS: I know I know MSI right? I LOVED that board. At 170 bucks, it had some features I liked. They sound dumb but one big one for me is the ram, not only is that board set up for the dimms to go 2/4 (current MSI board set up for 1/3) the x370 had re inforced dims! Putting the rams in made them not flex at all! I love that!
Also each dim has a LED on it to tell you if the ram is seated properly or not... idk why but I love stuff like that. Pray for me the next board works properly! 5

There is no onboard graphics, although the ports are there, they are there for the future RyZen APUs, which have not been released yet.

The slow post / boot issue was fixed with bios updates.

Nothing wrong the MSI motherboards, ive not used an MSI board in 10 years, and out of all the AM4 boards I have used so far, ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI, the MSI has come out way on top of the other 2, for fast bios updates too, they are totally on the ball.

Im running the same setup, MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon, RyZen R7 1700, G.skill Trident Z RGB 3200mhz, Sapphire RX480 8gb card,

All AM4 motherboards recommend you use dimms 2 and 4 first, however, I have tried 1 and 3 also and seem to work fine, also, those LEDs above the RAM slots and behind the PCI-e slot can be turned off if you dont like them with the MSI gaming app in windows, I turned mine off as I didnt like the scattered red LEDs all over the place, and configured the other LEDs to rainbow effect.

 

[glytch5]

I updated the bios, it did not fix it!. It said right in the manual there is a mode for selecting onboard or not. no selection in the option.
My pro carbon am3+ also shows in the manual to use 1/3 not 2/4.
It wasn't a "slow boot" the monitor would just not come on.
it would be fully booted at windows log in, the HD was booting, just no output. Sometimes when switching displays you would see a bit of the bios menu.

You know how see the numbers on the bottom right hand corner when booting? instead I get a monitor turns on, and says "display port" or "HDMI" for 20 seconds, Then suddenly boom you are at windows log in... the boot was fine! Strange issue.

 

[Seanie280672]

I updated the bios, it did not fix it!. It said right in the manual there is a mode for selecting onboard or not. no selection in the option.
My pro carbon am3+ also shows in the manual to use 1/3 not 2/4.
It wasn't a "slow boot" the monitor would just not come on.
it would be fully booted at windows log in, the HD was booting, just no output. Sometimes when switching displays you would see a bit of the bios menu.

You know how see the numbers on the bottom right hand corner when booting? instead I get a monitor turns on, and says "display port" or "HDMI" for 20 seconds, Then suddenly boom you are at windows log in... the boot was fine! Strange issue.

Which graphics card are you using ?

 

[glytch5]

At the time I tried my MSI rx 480, and my old power color r9 280x. Same problem. Using that card now on my AM3+ mobo. EVerything works as it should on the pro carbon AM3+ as opposed to the pro carbon AM4.

Good thing held onto this FX set up, I decided to buy a new case to keep as a back up for situations like this!

I called MSI about it at the time, they said try a diff video card and bios update. Neither helped. Nor did multiple monitors with different cables. Must be a funky mobo right?

I thought maybe ram... it ran games fine and stress test was no issue so couldn't have been that.