MSI B450 Tomahawk Dual Channel Ram?

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smartymatic

smartymatic

Nov 1, 2018
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Hello,

I have chosen the MSI B450 Tomahawk as my board, the Ryzen 5 2400G APU as a processor + graphic (until there's more money for a dedicated card), and I wanted to add 2x8gb ram at 3000mhz. But when I went to MSI's support page here to look if the ram I chose was supported, I got confused.

First, this is my shopping cart:
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Here are the numbers for easy copy paste:

Patriot: PV416G300C6K
Corsair: CMK16GX4M2B3200C16

Now the problem I noticed with Corsair is, there is a "ver." number on the QVL list, but I could not find it specified anywhere on Amazon (or other pages). One version runs in SINGLE, the other in DUAL.
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Now the questions are:
1. Does "Side" in photo (or link) mean dual Channel vs. Single Channel, or merely Single Rank vs. Dual Rank?
2. Will one of these two Kits run at dual channel at their rate speed (or something close), I don't plan buying both, I will chose just one of them (which one by the way?)
 
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Darkbreeze
ALL memory will run in dual channel if there are two or more modules and the chipset supports it, AND if they are similar enough (Or preferably, a matched set of modules that came together) to play nice together. There are NO "single channel" memory modules. There are ONLY "memory modules" as far as consumer memory on modern platforms is concerned.

You should buy ALL memory you plan to EVER use on that system, at the SAME time, in ONE set, if you don't want to roll the dice on a crapshoot as to whether they will actually work together or not.

For Ryzen, even with improved memory support due to periodic bios updates, I'd STILL stick to modules listed at the following link which are user verified to work on Ryzen systems. The...
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ALL memory will run in dual channel if there are two or more modules and the chipset supports it, AND if they are similar enough (Or preferably, a matched set of modules that came together) to play nice together. There are NO "single channel" memory modules. There are ONLY "memory modules" as far as consumer memory on modern platforms is concerned.

You should buy ALL memory you plan to EVER use on that system, at the SAME time, in ONE set, if you don't want to roll the dice on a crapshoot as to whether they will actually work together or not.

For Ryzen, even with improved memory support due to periodic bios updates, I'd STILL stick to modules listed at the following link which are user verified to work on Ryzen systems. The motherboard QVL lists are very incomplete and do not indicate the ONLY modules that will work on any specific motherboard. They only indicate that those modules were tested to work on it by the manufacturer, but many other modules will work on it as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/649ay8/ram_collection_thread_please_post_your_ram/
 
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