Processors

[FrancescoPalaio]

Dears, good morning.
I am building a PC. I bought an AMD RYZEN5 5600X processor
I have a memory set from KINGSTON FURY BEAST, 16GB (2X8GB), 3600MHz, DDR4, CL17, BLACK - KF436C17BBK2/16
The maximum RAM memory speed for this processor is 3200MHz.
Will I be able to use the 3600MHz memories? Will I have problems?
Or will I have to buy 3200MHz memories
problems?
Thank you in advance for your attention.
Francesco Palaio

[elstaci · Accepted solution]

That all depends on the Make & Model of your Motherboard whether it supports those RAM speeds.

You need to look at your Motherboard's Memory Specs to find out.

[goodplay · Accepted solution]

Check on your motherboard website memory compatibility list, if your ram model is supported they should be ok.

Many people run 3600Mhz with no problem.

[FrancescoPalaio · Accepted solution]

my motherboard is an ASUS TUF GAMING
B550-PLUS (WI-FI). It holds a 3600MHz RAM memory. My concern is with the ryzen 5 5660x processor which supports RAM with a maximum speed of 3200MHz. I'm afraid there might be a conflict.

[elstaci · Accepted solution]

That all depends on the Make & Model of your Motherboard whether it supports those RAM speeds.

You need to look at your Motherboard's Memory Specs to find out.

[goodplay · Accepted solution]

Check on your motherboard website memory compatibility list, if your ram model is supported they should be ok.

Many people run 3600Mhz with no problem.

[FrancescoPalaio · Accepted solution]

my motherboard is an ASUS TUF GAMING
B550-PLUS (WI-FI). It holds a 3600MHz RAM memory. My concern is with the ryzen 5 5660x processor which supports RAM with a maximum speed of 3200MHz. I'm afraid there might be a conflict.

[elstaci · Accepted solution]

Your motherboard supports Overclocking your Ram to 3600Mhz. It depends whether you can overclock it the Ram depending what your Motherboard's QVL List for the 5000 Series RAM MEMORY says.

In my opinion, you should have no problem setting your RAM to 3600Mhz with the 5000 Processors.

Here is Asus Support RAM Memory list. see if your RAM is listed or not: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GAMING-B550-PLUS-WI-FI/H...

[FrancescoPalaio]

Dear,
First of all, thank you very much for your attention.

although the motherboard supports ram clocked at 3600 MHz, I was in doubt because on the AMD website
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-5600x
says the maximum memory speed is Up to 3200 MHz.
I've heard that AMD professionals have done tests with 3600MHz speed ram, but the processor data sheet says the maximum speed is 3200MHz. will I have problems?

[elstaci]

I have a Ryzen 3700X and my RAM has a native speed of 3600Mhz and I have it overclocked from its SPD speed to 3600Mhz without any issues.

You motherboard supports overclocking the RAM Memory. So if your RAM Memory supports 3600Mhz you can overclock it in BIOS.

Even though 3200Mhz is the official maximum speed supported by AMD but you can easily overclock the RAM if your RAM native speed is greater then 3200Mhz.

You can look in your motherboard's QVL list for your processor and see if your RAM is listed. It will show you what RAM speed your Motherboard will officially support.

just for your information, the sweet spot for the Ryzen 2000 series processor is 3200Mhz while the sweet spot for the 3000 series processors is 3600Mhz.

The sweet spot refers to the RAM speed in which the processor will have the best performance.

Found this  Tom's Hardware article about the best RAM speed for the 5000 series processors: https://www.tomshardware.com/features/ryzen-5000-ram-guide

DDR4-3200 is still the officially supported memory frequency on Ryzen 5000. Looking back, Ryzen 3000's FCLK typically hits a wall at 1,800 MHz, which means you can run the memory at DDR4-3600 and remain in 1:1:1 mode. There have been rare exceptions where some really extraordinary Ryzen 3000 samples could run stably with a 1,900 MHz FCLK (DDR4-3800).

DDR4-3200 should unquestionably be the starting point for Ryzen 5000. We recorded a 5.8% performance difference between DDR4-2133 and DDR4-3200, the native frequency supported on Zen 3. Our test results confirmed that DDR4-3600 is still the sweet spot for this generation, though. It delivered 7.2% more performance than DDR4-2133. Compared to DDR4-3200, however, DDR4-3600 was only 1.3% faste

[goodplay]

Here's a link to (what may be) ram tested by AMD, but you should also check memory & motherboard website compatibility lists.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-compatible-memory/