BEST RAM FOR ASUS HERO X570

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

This just became available again on my side of the border. >>

G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GTZN - Newegg.com

Buy G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GTZN with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

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Two sets of these should do the job just fine.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Yeah, in my opinion that is probably the best ram you can pair ryzen with and probably the safest bet as far as just dropping it in and getting very good performance.


Down the line you should be easily able to tweak that to 3800Mhz assuming your particular CPU can handle 1900Mhz IF.

 

[heky]

Yeah, those are samsung b-die. But they are expensive.

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Buy Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 4400 (PC4 35200) Desktop Memory Model PVS416G440C9K with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

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This is also b-die, with the advantage of no RGB (at least for me, lol) and a much better price.

 

[moproblems99]

Yeah, those are samsung b-die. But they are expensive.

I can't speak for the 8gb sticks but the 16gb are not b-die.

 

[Cheeseball]

I can't speak for the 8gb sticks but the 16gb are not b-die.

That one he linked is most likely b-die with 4000MHz @ 19-19-19-39.

 

[moproblems99]

That one he linked is most likely b-die with 4000MHz @ 19-19-19-39.

I was referring to the 3600 Neos.

 

[Cheeseball]

I was referring to the 3600 Neos.

Ooh wait those might be b-die too (or maybe microns) because of 3600 @ 16-16-16-36 which is sexy too

EDIT: Holy crap $220 wtf

Go for the Patriot Vipers instead

 

[heky]

He linked the 2x8gb kit, not the 2x16gb. And yes, even the 2x16gb F4-3600C16D-32GTZN are b-die exclusive.

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

Ooh wait those might be b-die too (or maybe microns) because of 3600 @ 16-16-16-36 which is sexy too

EDIT: Holy crap $220 wtf

Go for the Patriot Vipers instead

Gonna see what BLACK FRIDAY brings.

Yeah, those are samsung b-die. But they are expensive.

Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 4000 RAM Memory - Newegg.com

Buy Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 4400 (PC4 35200) Desktop Memory Model PVS416G440C9K with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.ca

This is also b-die, with the advantage of no RGB (at least for me, lol) and a much better price.

Love that they are b-die. Patriot is good. Sorry to see it isn't on QVL.

 

[A Computer Guy]

I'm not even sure if I'll be getting the 3900x at this stage in the game. It's starting to look like RAM might be gobbling up that part of the budget. I might just have to settle for the 3700x (although I was originally considering the 3800). Then again, this is a gaming build and I can't see why anyone would want a 3900x strictly for gaming. I'm typing on a nice little work station atm with 128 GB of Corsair Dominator (the platinum stuff) on a sweet little Intel chip clocked at 3.9 GHz running with a NVIDIA 1070. I want to put the gaming unit on a shelf above my monitor and share the monitor via KVM. So, for the time being I have board, case, psu, Nvme, cables and such waiting on a CPU and decent RAM. It's a work in progress.

I have a 3800x and it's nice. Some say it's a waste of $$ over the 3700x but I seem to have 6 of 8 "good" cores (even before all the BIOS fixes) and I can FCLK to 1900 making DDR4-3800 possible while maintaining 1:1 with infinity fabric, so I suspect they are better binned. However with only 1 CCD (like 3600 to 3700x) the memory bandwidth is not as good as it's bigger brothers that have two CCD's. Only 1 CCD also means less heat. A 240mm AIO running low fan speed is possible for lower noise unless of course you use fancy headphones then maybe fan noise won't matter..

Well, I won't be buying it anyway since Newegg just doubled the price in the middle of viewing it. I'll spend my finances elsewhere. Hey, I have 6 days to drag this out. I'm going to milk it for all it's worth. I'm like that — intensive/extensive research. Caveat Emptor! It's paid off in the past, I trust it will pay off in the future.




Thanks for the advice and I appreciate it. It's been a while since I've done any AMD builds but it would seem that not much has changed over the years. To be honest I've never done an AMD build using UEFI. Most folks in these parts prefer Intel over AMD and will pay handsomely for a good build. That said this is a personal build and before I cross over I like to test the waters as it were as much as I can. It's looking like my earlier concerns are not completely without merit. There's no way I'm buying unmatched RAM and there's no way I'm settling for empty DIMMS. If it has to be 4X8 so be it. I'll definitely be using the DRAM Calculator before doing any over clocking and I'll likely not oc anything within the first year as it is a personal policy of mine with personal builds to let the system "season" a little before doing any overclocking. Perhaps that's an Intel thing but it has worked well enough for me in the past. I've reflected on some of the better advice from the good people in this forum and I do believe it would be well worth my while to at least opt for 3600 MHz but still not sure if this is going to be a problem on the HERO. I'm quite sure I chose a good system board. It should be here Monday. So far RAM looks like a tossup between the Jewlery Box stuff and the HYPER X PREDATOR B-die material. Either set costs well over 500 Canadian simoleans. Thanks for the advice.

Corsair does offer a kit to fill empty DIMM's. Let's say if you get 2 of 4 real RGB PRO DIMMS you can get 2 of 4 filler RGB PRO DIMMS making it look like a complete set. Electrically I am not sure if it will have the same effect like having fully populated ram possibly requiring lower frequency. Regarding OC remember if you get a Zen2 CPU then DDR4-3200 will not be an OC but DDR4-3600 will be an OC for your CPU.

Somewhere on the internet I also read that because of Zen2 CPU's larger caches the ram timings don't make as much of a difference as they did on the prior generations of Zen/Zen+. (for example CL16 vs CL18) So if you are looking to reduce the cost to find the right balance for your build you might consider that as well.

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

Thanks Computer Guy

Not really a big fan of Corsair after getting severely burned on one of their products and not getting much help from their support team. Decided to cut my losses and buy elsewhere ever since. Just a matter of personal preference and values. Instead of consistently whining about how bad a product or service is I think it is better simply to vote with my wallet. If enough people do that any smart corporation will get the message. Sad to say, but Corsair also makes a lot of garbage. Those filler "DIMMS" sound too close to what I already went through with Corsair and, in my opinion, Corsair has to be among the worst when it comes to RGB components. I realize that isn't everyone's experience, but I have to stand behind my builds and Corsair cost me a job. Well, to be accurate, I completed the job but I did it for free. Nothing personal, just business. They no longer get my business and I am stuck with a dead component which I kept to remind me why I don't buy from Corsair anymore.

I wondered about the 3800x as it does seem to be a better over clocker right out of the box. I know Wendell spoke highly of it and recommended it over the 3900 but I can't seem to find that video. I recall watching it twice and going back to where he stated this so I know I heard it right. Not once did he have anything negative to say about the 3800x. Yes, I did also hear that the 3000 series is not as finicky about RAM timings and I'll keep that in mind come Friday. I probably wouldn't be so QVL shy if it weren't for the fact that one time I had to RMA the same motherboard to ASUS five times and every ruddy time they would ask me about the RAM I was using and if it were QVL. It was. In fact, it was Corsair Dominator RAM and there was nothing wrong with it. In the end it turned out to be a bad batch of system boards. But hey, my time... my trouble... my energy... my peace of mind, right? Nobody wants to do 5 RMAs in a row for the same system board. So yeah, ASUS is big on QVL and I'm probably a little too big on ASUS. I never want to go through that again. I wonder what would have happened if the RAM I was using wasn't on the QVL. Just a thought.

I'm not an IT. I'm just an enthusiast/PC builder. I've been doing this for close to two decades now. In all that time not once have I ever built my own personal gaming rig. Ironic, isn't it? I've built both red and blue for others but not for myself. (At least not in the realm of gaming.) But now I'm semi-retired and I want to have some fun. My wife and daughters are very pleased with their builds but they're all Intel. I haven't built an AMD desktop from scratch in well over 5 years. I haven't touched an AMD gaming rig in ten. To be honest, AMD never much impressed me until now. If someone insisted that I build them an AMD gaming rig I'd do it. Customer is always right. Well, to a point. lol If that's what they wanted to spend their bux on so be it. But anyone would have to be daft to think that AMD hasn't made huge strides in the last couple of years what with Thread Ripper and Infinity Fabric. I am compelled to give credit where credit is due. What AMD has done is phenomenal. They got my vote and my wallet is open.

Meanwhile, Intel hasn't even dealt with Spectre/Meltdown. I mean, at the hardware level where it counts. How many years has it been? Three? They haven't released any PCIe Gen 4 to the domestic end user either, which is just as well since they don't seem to care about fixing their vulnerabilities anyway. I can't believe people are still building servers with Intel architecture! That's just insane. Anyway, there it is. I apologize for the rant. Thanks again for the sound advice.

Yeah, those are samsung b-die. But they are expensive.

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This is also b-die, with the advantage of no RGB (at least for me, lol) and a much better price.

Heky, the base timings on that RAM is soo good it hurts. I'm gonna give ASUS a call and find out why that RAM isn't on the list.

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Buy Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 4400 (PC4 35200) Desktop Memory Model PVS416G440C9K with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

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[oxrufiioxo]

You technically could always test the board with a cheap kit on the qvl prior to opening an RMA this is a step I think most people would take anyway even if they have a kit that works thats
already on the qvl as it is. Testing a second known working kit of ram is a lot easier than breaking down your whole system I would imagine. I honestly only look if the board supports the same speed and timings on the QVL I've done this for 8 different Ryzen setups 1st/2nd/3rd gen and haven't had a single memory issue. I did have a couple corsair LPX kits that Ryzen hated but I sold them off ages ago on Ebay.

Asus isn't going to do a whole lot of testing of 4000+ ram as it doesn't make any sense for Ryzen 3000. Anything past 3800 MT/s the IF clock gets chopped in half meaning in a lot of scenarios you lose performance. That patriot kit is pretty awesome for the price and as of late the kit I recommend to more budget conscious shoppers at least in the 3600 MT/s 17-19-19-39 variation as the 4000 would require you to tweak it down to 3800 MT/s and then try to tighten the timings to get the best performance. The latency of your memory skyrockets if you are not 1:1:1.

 

[heky]

That is exactly my point behind ordering the 4400mhz kit. Try and run it at 3800 1:1:1 with very tight timings. I have read comments of people running it at 3600Mhz CL 14-14-14-28-42-264-1T. If i can get that, i will be a pretty happy camper...

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

Yup. Did you check the base timings on that RAM?

 

[heky]

Yes, 19-19-19-39 @ 4400, and its definitely b-die.

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

I don't think 1:1 is going to be a problem.

 

[heky]

Oh, you meant the base timings, sorry. Those are just jedec specs. I ordered 2 of the 4400mhz kit, as i said before. Cant wait to get them...should be here in a week. Will definitely post some feedback how the get along with my 3900x and the MSI Prestige Creation, since these are not on the qvl. But i am not that worried, since it is b-die. Fingers crossed.

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

Oh, you meant the base timings, sorry. Those are just jedec specs. I ordered 2 of the 4400mhz kit, as i said before. Cant wait to get them...should be here in a week. Will definitely post some feedback how the get along with my 3900x and the MSI Prestige Creation, since these are not on the qvl. But i am not that worried, since it is b-die. Fingers crossed.

I don't think I'll be getting the 3900x myself so I think anything higher than this would be a waste; but even if I had to drop to 3800 and tweak a little it would still be well worth it. There are two sets of RAM on the QVL that are same speed so I'm guessing there's a chance I'll be safe with the b-die. Still I'm going to call ASUS and raz them a little all the same.

 

[Chomiq]

Anything higher than 3800 is a waste because you're increasing latency due to uncoupled mode.

Unless you're going to run it at lower speed with tighter timings.

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

Anything higher than 3800 is a waste because you're increasing latency due to uncoupled mode.

Unless you're going to run it at lower speed with tighter timings.

So you drop profile and get better results than you would with ram that costs 75 bux more and gain better performance for less rubles?

 

[NoJuan999]

@ WHOFOUNDFUNGUS
You should read this before deciding between a 3700x and a 3800x:

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs. 3700X: What's the Difference?

The latest series of Ryzen CPUs has been out for six weeks and yet only about a week ago were we able to get our hands on...

www.techspot.com

I went with the 3700x and I am Very happy with my choice.
Apparently I got one of the better binned 3700x's though, because mine does 4.15 GHz all core with stock settings (PBO on Auto) and even higher with the Asus Performance Level setting at level 2 (max AMD specs) or level 3 (OC) (PBO tweaked settings by The Stilt).

And you might want to look at this RAM kit as well (it is on your QVL):

G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16Q-32GTZN - Newegg.com

Buy G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16Q-32GTZN with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

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And it will almost certainly be able to run at 3733 MHz / 1867 FCLK like my Ripjaws do.
And as far as I know 3733 is the recommended sweet spot for RAM speed with a 3000 series CPU:

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

@ WHOFOUNDFUNGUS
You should read this before deciding between a 3700x and a 3800x:

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs. 3700X: What's the Difference?

The latest series of Ryzen CPUs has been out for six weeks and yet only about a week ago were we able to get our hands on...

www.techspot.com

I went with the 3700x and I am Very happy with my choice.
Apparently I got one of the better binned 3700x's though, because mine does 4.15 GHz all core with stock settings (PBO on Auto) and even higher with the Asus Performance Level setting at level 2 (max AMD specs) or level 3 (OC) (PBO tweaked settings by The Stilt).

And you might want to look at this RAM kit as well (it is on your QVL):

G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16Q-32GTZN - Newegg.com

Buy G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16Q-32GTZN with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

And it will almost certainly be able to run at 3733 MHz / 1867 FCLK like my Ripjaws do.
And as far as I know 3733 is the recommended sweet spot for RAM speed with a 3000 series CPU

Nojuan you did it again. You found the RAM I was looking at earlier, but at a much more affordable price. It would cost a tad more than the Patriot RAM, but it's on the QVL (and I recognize that listing). I'm currently on the phone with ASUS and Krista is checking things for me while I'm on hold. They're trying to get the goods on the Patriot RAM even as I type. lol I suppose some would point out that the Trident Z in question here also has RGB but I could tell you some stories about RGB and why I am reluctant to use it with RAM. So it looks like ASUS is open to the idea of sending me a form as they have no data on the PVS416G400C9K stuff. I will keep ya'll posted like a good patriot on what ASUS sends me in case anyone else here wouldn't mind sending in their results to ASUS. So now I have some options — I can take the Trident Conservative approach or run with the Libertarian Patriot approach :::sigh::: decisions, decisions. My system board is expected to be in today. Road conditions are bad. Snow flurries are thick. Visibility is poor. There's a blizzard pending outside my window. Winter has come to the Northern Gateway. I'll check out that AMD Ryzen 7 article when I get more time. Thanks again.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Thanks Computer Guy

Not really a big fan of Corsair after getting severely burned on one of their products and not getting much help from their support team. Decided to cut my losses and buy elsewhere ever since. Just a matter of personal preference and values. Instead of consistently whining about how bad a product or service is I think it is better simply to vote with my wallet. If enough people do that any smart corporation will get the message. Sad to say, but Corsair also makes a lot of garbage. Those filler "DIMMS" sound too close to what I already went through with Corsair and, in my opinion, Corsair has to be among the worst when it comes to RGB components. I realize that isn't everyone's experience, but I have to stand behind my builds and Corsair cost me a job. Well, to be accurate, I completed the job but I did it for free. Nothing personal, just business. They no longer get my business and I am stuck with a dead component which I kept to remind me why I don't buy from Corsair anymore.

I wondered about the 3800x as it does seem to be a better over clocker right out of the box. I know Wendell spoke highly of it and recommended it over the 3900 but I can't seem to find that video. I recall watching it twice and going back to where he stated this so I know I heard it right. Not once did he have anything negative to say about the 3800x. Yes, I did also hear that the 3000 series is not as finicky about RAM timings and I'll keep that in mind come Friday. I probably wouldn't be so QVL shy if it weren't for the fact that one time I had to RMA the same motherboard to ASUS five times and every ruddy time they would ask me about the RAM I was using and if it were QVL. It was. In fact, it was Corsair Dominator RAM and there was nothing wrong with it. In the end it turned out to be a bad batch of system boards. But hey, my time... my trouble... my energy... my peace of mind, right? Nobody wants to do 5 RMAs in a row for the same system board. So yeah, ASUS is big on QVL and I'm probably a little too big on ASUS. I never want to go through that again. I wonder what would have happened if the RAM I was using wasn't on the QVL. Just a thought.

I'm not an IT. I'm just an enthusiast/PC builder. I've been doing this for close to two decades now. In all that time not once have I ever built my own personal gaming rig. Ironic, isn't it? I've built both red and blue for others but not for myself. (At least not in the realm of gaming.) But now I'm semi-retired and I want to have some fun. My wife and daughters are very pleased with their builds but they're all Intel. I haven't built an AMD desktop from scratch in well over 5 years. I haven't touched an AMD gaming rig in ten. To be honest, AMD never much impressed me until now. If someone insisted that I build them an AMD gaming rig I'd do it. Customer is always right. Well, to a point. lol If that's what they wanted to spend their bux on so be it. But anyone would have to be daft to think that AMD hasn't made huge strides in the last couple of years what with Thread Ripper and Infinity Fabric. I am compelled to give credit where credit is due. What AMD has done is phenomenal. They got my vote and my wallet is open.

Meanwhile, Intel hasn't even dealt with Spectre/Meltdown. I mean, at the hardware level where it counts. How many years has it been? Three? They haven't released any PCIe Gen 4 to the domestic end user either, which is just as well since they don't seem to care about fixing their vulnerabilities anyway. I can't believe people are still building servers with Intel architecture! That's just insane. Anyway, there it is. I apologize for the rant. Thanks again for the sound advice.



Heky, the base timings on that RAM is soo good it hurts. I'm gonna give ASUS a call and find out why that RAM isn't on the list.

Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 4000 RAM Memory - Newegg.com

Buy Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 4400 (PC4 35200) Desktop Memory Model PVS416G440C9K with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

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I have mixed feelings regarding Corsair. On one hand I like the aesthetics of their RGB in particular the RGB Pro and LL fan series however I am somewhat annoyed with the cost and software controlled aspect of it. I find iCue is an interesting ecosystem but I think it could/should be much better considering the overall cost. I haven't had much of a real issue with iCue until a recent update now sporadic service failure that sounds like my USB headphones disconnect/reconnnect causing my audio to be disrupted. When I don't want to deal with that I turn it off but with lack of hardware control my PC turns back into a lite-brite demo.

Regarding their ram I haven't had much issue although it seems in terms of overclocking that brand seems to be disliked quite a bit. I had gotten a lower end DDR4-2400 LPX kit and successfully overclocked it to DDR4-3200 with 2 dimms and DDR4-2933 with 4 dimms with ease on Ryzen 5 2600. Later I got an RGB Pro DDR4-3200 kit who's tRC value was problematic (too low for Ryzen IMC I guess) but after some tweaking I was able to overclock it to DDR4-3600 before a later BIOS update borked it. Also I was able to OC it to DDR4-3800 and passed memtest86 however I suspect my board couldn't handle it and/or I couldn't nail down the right settings to have it survive past windows login. Overall the kit worked just fine despite the tRC issue. The hardest part of getting my RAM OC's to work has mostly been with BIOS where the quality changes as the platform matures (updates) but lucky I haven't been in a situation where I my system wouldn't work.

In regards to overclocking Zen2 an alternative interesting approach to all core is CCX overclocking. I think that would come in really handy for gaming so for example you could get a smaller set of cores with a much faster OC and pin your game to those.

 

[WHOFOUNDFUNGUS]

No doubt about it, Corsair makes good RAM. I was really surprised to learn here that that so many people had issues with the Corsair B-die RAM but I've been out of touch with Corsair for some time now so I guess I really shouldn't be. I've never had an issue with my 128 GB of Dominator and with that much RAM if there were ever going to be a problem this amount of memory would likely be among the first case scenarios to produce it. To be fair, in all my days of using Corsair RAM I've never had a problem with it and I still have some DDR2 RAM that runs just fine in another unit. My HX1000i has never given me any issue either. I'm not familiar with CCX overclocking but perhaps I'll look into it one day. The board just came in this afternoon. The box was a little soggy and it looks like it got dropped in the snow. Haven't opened it yet. I'm thinking of making an unboxing video.

 

[NoJuan999]

Nojuan you did it again. You found the RAM I was looking at earlier, but at a much more affordable price. It would cost a tad more than the Patriot RAM, but it's on the QVL (and I recognize that listing). I'm currently on the phone with ASUS and Krista is checking things for me while I'm on hold. They're trying to get the goods on the Patriot RAM even as I type. lol I suppose some would point out that the Trident Z in question here also has RGB but I could tell you some stories about RGB and why I am reluctant to use it with RAM. So it looks like ASUS is open to the idea of sending me a form as they have no data on the PVS416G400C9K stuff. I will keep ya'll posted like a good patriot on what ASUS sends me in case anyone else here wouldn't mind sending in their results to ASUS. So now I have some options — I can take the Trident Conservative approach or run with the Libertarian Patriot approach :::sigh::: decisions, decisions. My system board is expected to be in today. Road conditions are bad. Snow flurries are thick. Visibility is poor. There's a blizzard pending outside my window. Winter has come to the Northern Gateway. I'll check out that AMD Ryzen 7 article when I get more time. Thanks again.

I can tell you from experience that the TridentZ RGB kits work Very well BUT if you use Asus Aura to change the RGB from the stock Rainbow effect to a solid color or any of the other effects offered in Asus Aura it can corrupt the SPD settings on the RAM and cause it to fail.
I personally RMA'd a G.Skill TridentZ RGB16GB 3200 MHz (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR) kit because using Asus Aura corrupted my SPD settings.
BUT, G.Skill honored their lifetime warranty and replaced my original Hynix based kit with a new Samsung B die based F4-3200C16D-16GTZRX kit.
My Advice is that if you buy ANY RGB RAM (from G.Skill, Corsair, Patriot, or whoever) kit that you leave them at the default Rainbow setting and you will Not have to worry about corrupting the SPD data on the RAM sticks.
If you google RGB RAM SPD corruption you will find that it is only an issue if you use RGB software to change the RGB settings on the RAM.

And just to be clear, I have only ever had to RMA 2 RAM kits in the last 30 years.
One kit was from G.Skill and they replaced it (without any hassle) with an even better binned kit.
The other kit was from a different, but equally well known company and they refused to honor there life time warranty.
And that is why I am a very strong supporter of G.Skill RAM kits.

Also, when my G.Skill TridentZ RGB kit was in the process of being RMA'd,
I purchased this Patriot Viper Elite Series DDR4 8GB (2x4GB) 2666MHz PC4-21300 Dual Channel Kit (Black/Grey) PVE48G266C6KGY kit to use until I got my new G.Skill kit:

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They were Micron E die and worked perfectly on my Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming MB with my 3700x.
I was actually even able to OC it to 2933 MHz @ 16-18-18-18-36.
So if you can grab a Patriot kit for a Much lower price you might get lucky.

No doubt about it, Corsair makes good RAM. I was really surprised to learn here that that so many people had issues with the Corsair B-die RAM but I've been out of touch with Corsair for some time now so I guess I really shouldn't be. I've never had an issue with my 128 GB of Dominator and with that much RAM if there were ever going to be a problem this amount of memory would likely be among the first case scenarios to produce it. To be fair, in all my days of using Corsair RAM I've never had a problem with it and I still have some DDR2 RAM that runs just fine in another unit. My HX1000i has never given me any issue either. I'm not familiar with CCX overclocking but perhaps I'll look into it one day. The board just came in this afternoon. The box was a little soggy and it looks like it got dropped in the snow. Haven't opened it yet. I'm thinking of making an unboxing video.

I completely disagree with this statement.
I help out on a few pretty well known tech forums and I have seen way too many posts from users that have issues with Corsair Vengeance LPX and Corsair Vengeance LPX RGB kits not running at their rated speeds on AMD (2000 and 300 series) based systems.
For whatever reason, be it MB manufacturer BIOS issues or badly binned IC's from Corsair or whatever, they just are not as compatible with Ryzen 2000 and 3000 based systems as G.Skill, Patriot, or even Kingston HyperX kits are.

If I was building an Intel based system I would have no problem recommending Corsair RAM BUT for an AMD Ryzen rig Corsair would be my very last choice for RAM.