ram LIFE aging. Ryzen cpu must lucky for DDR4???

Wow,

You have raised a lot of serious issues regarding the Ryzen platform that I was completely unaware of.

The appeal of the new Ryzen CPUs (2200G/2400G) with integrated Vega 8/11 graphics was it's price-to-performance ratio. But what I'm hearing from you suggests that it's only an illusion.

My Patriot Vipers are on the QVL Memory list for Raven Ridge memory compatibility but they only boot up @ 2133MHz. That's not right.

I, however, have them working now at a stable speed of 2800MHz by setting my own timings. It's kind of ridiculous that a person who knows next to nothing can get their chips working at a faster stable speed than a genius company like ASRock.

Oh well, thanks for your in-depth reply. I really appreciate it. I hope it helps others others as well.

The one thing that you said that makes me wonder about though is that the advertised speeds are for Intel and not AMD. But motherboards that are designed by ASRock are designed for specific CPUs. Obviously an AM4 motherboard can only run AMD AM4 socket chips. So, ASRock AM4 motherboards advertising memory speeds @ 3200MHz with an overclock are obviously not for Intel. Unless you were talking just about the rated speed of the memory chips themselves.

I think the easiest route for anyone who wants extreme performance in gaming is to just buy a good discrete graphics card. Then you aren't left hoping and praying that you will get the performance that you paid for.

I never cared about overclocking my memory past 2933MHz which is what ASRock's QVL for Raven Ridge memory list says it will work at. That's all I wanted!