Update: not sure if I'm just unlucky or these don't last long but now it can't reach 3000MHz anymore, I've now got it at 2933MHz.



The Review:



Tl:Dr it runs stable at 3000MHz on a X570 + Ryzen 3000 series processor, can't reach 3200MHz.



So let's just say, I planned to get myself the new Ryzen 7 3700X so I ordered my sticks of Ram in advance (incase they get sold out on release of these super hyped processors) and had my wallet ready for the launch as well as a new X570 board (my previous pc setup included ddr3 ram and therefore I needed an upgrade).



After getting everything in, enabling XMP which set it automatically to a 3200MHz profile, I was met with a black screen for a good 3-5 minutes, staring at the LEDs of my motherboard which kept having it stuck on the ddr4 step of the boot cycle. After a few attempts it booted, but the bios had reset itself and disabled XMP and therefore the Ram was clocked at 2133MHz. I tried multiple times to get it to run the XMP profile but alas, things had started to look a bit dire.



I had then tried searching up about the issue, was met with mentions that ryzen doesn't support certain ram dies and its recommended to go for those with Samsung die that generally had a rating of cl14. Things took a turn for the worst, I started panicking on how to get a refund and where to get a stick of ram thats recommended for my ryzen setup. Eventually I came across a video on memory overclocking, it told me XMP was basically overclocking. It helped me out, I managed to get my sticks of ram up to 3000MHz but no matter what I did 3200MHz just would result in my system getting stuck in the boot cycle, so in the end I just settled for the 3000MHz (it's a noticeable increase in performance and benchmarking in time spy on 3dmark had a cpu score of 8600(2133MHz) to 9400(3000MHz) so for this price point I would say its worth it, there may be better options out there but this stick of ram is literally everywhere and is pretty cheap so I would class this as an OK product