Using from Gskill quad kit as 8x2 ram on Asus Ryzen board ? Help please .

[saswat12345]

Hi , So I ordered the shop guy to order 8x2 kits of 3000Mhz to use with Strix B350-F Asus motherboard. He brought it from a quad kit which had 32gb 8x4 & he gave me 2 pieces from it . It's the G.skill Ripjaws 4 series . It'll run in dual channel mode right ? Gonna use with Ryzen 1600 & I expected him to give me Ripjaws V but he gave IV one it'll be fine to use in 2933 Mhz ? Any difference between IV & V series ?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

I have series V and have not had any problems. Below is a link to Tom's best memory and Series 4 is on the list where series 5 is not. So I would be happy with it. Running Ryzen you might want to go with a 3200mhz RAM kit because of the infinity fabric, so if anything, I would take it back to get a higher speed rather than worrying about Series 4 vs 5. There will not be a noticeable difference between the series, but there may be a noticeable difference between 3000 vs 3200.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ram,4057.html

Just because it came from a 32gb kit is fine. As long as it came from the same kit it will work well.

 

[saswat12345]

Thanks for reply i'll be fine with 3000 btw i heard RJ4 was designed specifically for Quad channel while Rj5 for is it true ? Cuz i can see Rj4 series comes in dual bundle as well. What about heat ?

 

[saswat12345]

Do u run ur Ripjaws 5 in XMP 3000+ speed ? What all u changed like volts , cl speed etc ? with which processor & motherboard ?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

I run mine at 2666. I have an 7700k and a Gigabyte Z170 gaming 7 so speed is not a big deal for me. I just run XMP so you wont be able to do what I am doing.

 

[saswat12345]

If I run it at just XMP profile enabled will it run at it's highest speed ? Never ran ram at higher frequency it just runs automatically so need some help regarding this step by step

 

[feelinfroggy777]

If you run XMP then I would run a memory benchmark and see how it compares. You can run userbenchmark.com and it will test all of your hardware and tell you how it ranks with other scores.

XMP is just a one click overclock of your RAM. If your benchmark comes out bad you can do it manually by just setting the frequency to 2933.