Is XMP supported by Ryzen (and my build)?

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I’ll be buying a Ryzen 2600 with 8gb of HyperX 1x8 3200MHz memory and an ASUS ROG Strix B350-F gaming motherboard that supports speeds up to 2666MHz without overclock.

Presuming that my RAM will attempt that speed upon the first boot, is it possible to overclock that to the highest frequency possible by the motherboard and the RAM (3200MHz)?

Also, the CPU supports up to 3600MHz, so it’s all good on that front. But will I be able to use XMP to overclock?
 
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Intel might be less impacted but still not desirable. Buy two matched (a set) 4GB DIMMs. When you have money to upgrade, then buy two matched 8GB DIMMs and sell the 4GB. There is no guarantee that a random DIMM purchase in the future will work with whatever is installed. Get the Ryzen or Intel, but get a matched set of two DIMMs.
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A single DIMM will really hurt Ryzen performance. Two DIMMs at 2133 would have been a better choice than a single high clock DIMM.

By default your RAM will run at 2133 (maybe 2666). You would have to set the DOCP (AMD equivalent of XMP) to get higher speeds.
 
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Wow. Thanks a lot, I could've ran into a lot of trouble there. So would Intel processors be less affected by a single DIMM?

The reason why I went for a single DIMM was because 2x4 unnecessarily takes up two channels and then I'm pretty stuffed for RAM upgrades.
 
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Intel might be less impacted but still not desirable. Buy two matched (a set) 4GB DIMMs. When you have money to upgrade, then buy two matched 8GB DIMMs and sell the 4GB. There is no guarantee that a random DIMM purchase in the future will work with whatever is installed. Get the Ryzen or Intel, but get a matched set of two DIMMs.
 
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Actually, one more thing. Would the RAM be overclockable via BIOS as the frequency that can be purchased maxes out at 2666MHz? It would be ideal to overclock to 3200MHz, but 3000MHz would also be a good upgrade.

Edit: Never mind, found some of the RAM, once again, thanks so much for your help.
 
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