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tiagobennetts

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So im looking for the best ram i can the Ryzen 5 1600x i'm going to buy and i don't know whether i should buy Trident Z 3200mhz (2x8) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015FY3BJ2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A191NNB60ZV843&psc=1
Or Flare x 3200mhz (2x8) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XFT7DF9/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1O63NEWOAZXWR&psc=1
Because Flare x is more expensive but i know its 100% compatible with ryzen. anyone know what i should do? or is there anything better to get for around the same price
 
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If you can wait two more months, go with the 2600(X) and a B470/X470 motherboard for the greatly improved out-of-the-box memory compatibility and no need to worry about a 300-series motherboard shipping with an AGESA revision older than 1.0.0.6 which can be a nightmare to get working prior to that BIOS update.
 
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Latest AGESA is 1000a. It's newer than 1006.

 
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The latest version of AGESA available won't help you when your motherboard ships with a version older than 1006 that won't boot due to memory compatibility issues making Ryzen extremely picky about RAM. I mentioned 1006 because that's where Ryzen got a major memory compatibility bump and a minimum milestone to look for when shopping for Ryzen boards to avoid unnecessary complications.

When one of my friends had me build a Ryzen PC last fall, I couldn't get it to boot and began to worry that I had messed something up. He took his parts back to the store he bought them from and the techs spent an hour swapping CPUs, DIMMs, same-model motherboards and cross-checking them on other boards before getting the board to boot. Eventually, they found a combination that worked, updated the BIOS, put the original parts back in and everything worked fine afterward.

Boards with old BIOS versions are likely still lingering in warehouses all over the place, so this is an important detail to keep in mind.
 
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CountMike

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I'm not sure about that, my Asus Prime x370 Pro worked with all AGESA and BIOS versions since first and original BIOS 0502 with 1600x and 1700x processors. RAM was difficult to set to 2966MHz over DOCP (XMP) but worked when set manually.
Newest AGESA code is need only for Raven Ridge (2200g/2400g) APUs and eventually for R5/7 2xxxx.
 
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It may have worked for you but if you search for people unable to boot their new Ryzen build throughout 2017, you'll find countless people unable to get their system to work until they swapped out the RAM, got the system to boot and updated the BIOS.

Prior to 1006, Ryzen was very hit-or-miss if you used anything but DIMMs explicitly qualified for Ryzen.
 
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