I’m doing my research on a build I would like to complete when Ryzen 4000 series is released. I’m very interesting in the Gigabyte B500 Aorus Master, pending reviews being released shortly.
My question is around memory for the the B550 Aorus Master, the memory I would like to use in G.Skill F4-3600C15D-16GTZ but its not on the QVL. There are other G.Skill 3600 kits on the QVL but have timings of 16-19-19-39 compared with the 15-15-15-35 of the F4-3600C15D-16GTZ.
How important is it that a memory kit be on the QVL for the board?
If the kit isn’t on the board QVL does that mean I have to do a lot of manual configuration in the BIOS to get the memory working?
Memory kits that are on the QVL listed are confirmed working with the board.
But G.skill Trident memory kits are very common,
so it’s likely that the other kit might work just fine as well,
although maybe not at the rated timings and might need some tweaking.
But it could also work just fine, matter of trying.
Still in regards to timings on Ryzen 3000 series, it generally does not really matter that much.
Unless you buy some really cheap crappy kits with very bad timings.
Because it can highly differ from the said memory chips used on the modules,
and the ranks.
But you basically want to run the infinity fabric clock at 1800mhz (3600mhz memory kits),
to get the best results in synthetic benchmarks.
CL15 or CL16 is not going to make a huge significant difference in that regards.
So you could very well just buy the CL16 kits instead, to be sure.
In regards to future proofing for Ryzen 4000 series cpu’s,
we don’t even know yet if those are going to be compatible with am4 or not.
So in terms of future proofing on that, it’s hard to tell.