Looking for a good trio, Ryzen 5 1600 + a B350 MOBO + a compatible memory.

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dbz87

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Hello everyone!

I am building my new PC, and started to have a little struggle with the memory, mobo, cpu trio.

The CPU is R5 1600, the motherboard is MSI B350 Tomahawk (I dont have it yet), now I need a good RAM for it, what is compatible with the mobo. I checked the QVL list, but well, it started to be a bit difficult for me. I want to avoid that I buy a memory lets say at 3200 MHz, but it wont work on that MHz because of something.

So, I am asking for some help about the motherboard and memory question, mainly 8GB, but if its 16GB, still okay. Is the Tomahawk a nice motherboard nowadays? Because questions what I found about Ryzen + memory + Tomahawk, they are from the release days of the Ryzen series.

Thank you for the help!
 
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I recently purchased an MSI B350 Tomahawk and a Ryzen 5 1600x. After alot of reading I decided on Corsiar Vengence LPX 3200 DDR4. When I went to purchase the ram the clerk said he didnt recommend Corsair ram with Ryzen CPU, I asked what he did recommend, he said the store had G.Skill Ripjaw 4 DDR4 3000 on sale for $209, $30 cheaper than the LPX Corsair I was going to buy. The G.Skill wasn't on the QVL for the board but I decided to take a chance.
On initial boot (before even installing OS), I went into the bios and it was showing 3.600 Ghz @ 2133 ram speed with bios version .150, I changed A-XMP to ram 2933 and rebooted, nothing changed. Rebooted and flashed bios to new version .180, back into bios to confirm new version, now .180...
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The msi b350 Tomahawk and HyperX Fury 2x4 kit are working well for me. The tomahawk is also working great for me. I had to RMA it because it came fried, but it seems fine now. I'm running ddr4 2133 mhz for the fury, and it's fine for some moderate-heavy gaming and multitassking. Hope this helps.
 
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lockdown744

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All ram brand's performance are alike just choose which brand and frequency you prefer
I have purchased a ddr4 crucial ballistix because it is the cheapest available ram i can find and it performs well with gaming ang editing
 
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I recently purchased an MSI B350 Tomahawk and a Ryzen 5 1600x. After alot of reading I decided on Corsiar Vengence LPX 3200 DDR4. When I went to purchase the ram the clerk said he didnt recommend Corsair ram with Ryzen CPU, I asked what he did recommend, he said the store had G.Skill Ripjaw 4 DDR4 3000 on sale for $209, $30 cheaper than the LPX Corsair I was going to buy. The G.Skill wasn't on the QVL for the board but I decided to take a chance.
On initial boot (before even installing OS), I went into the bios and it was showing 3.600 Ghz @ 2133 ram speed with bios version .150, I changed A-XMP to ram 2933 and rebooted, nothing changed. Rebooted and flashed bios to new version .180, back into bios to confirm new version, now .180. Selected A-XMP2 2933mhz AND 3.9 Ghz on CPU. Rebooted again, bios showed CPU running at 3.9 Ghz and ram 2933Mhz, continued to reinstall Windows 10 on Samsung 850 SSD with USB stick with ZERO issues. Computer has been running for a week now and I have yet to have any problems so I wont push it any further. Bottom line is you should flash to latest bios.
 
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