are the 570 boards finicky with RAM?

[Jarhead7236]

my son has the itch for a gaming rig and i'm interested in "facilitating" this happening...we don't need the "best" ram but I've scrolled through a few posts where ram/settings seemed to be a hurdle with the 570 boards...or maybe I misread (again :/ )

 

[Jeff G]

My b350 and x370 boards were a nightmare to get ram running at xmp profiles. B450 and x470 seemed to be a little better, but still finicky. My x570 was "hit xmp and go." No issues, no tinkering.

 

[EarthDog]

Yes... but not nearly as bad as Zen/Ryzen 1 series... It is a lot better, but still has some growing pains.

 

[Woomack]

If you pick X570 motherboard, then there are pretty much no issues with memory or XMP. On 300/400 series chipsets were problems which in big part were AMD fault. Some manufacturers spent time and money to fix all issues with later AGESA; some didn't want to waste resources on products which are for longer on the market and still match their QVL.

There is, however, one more issue which may happen. Some % of 3000 processors simply don't like memory clock past 3200. I actually have this issue with my 3700X. It looks like anything past 3200 isn't stable and at 3466+ won't boot at all. I thought it's a motherboard problem and checked 6 BIOS releases, but I had a talk with ASRock, and their engineers confirmed that the same they had in their lab with some 3000 processors. On my other CPU, the same memory runs up to 4800+.

 

[muzz]

My 3600, with 16gb of GSkill 3200/cl14, had trouble hitting even advertised mem clocks in the original bios my ASRock Extreme4 WiFi came with(1.10 I think), but I updated the bios to 1.60 and was able to hit 1900/3800 at clock15 on the next boot(I just picked speeds and bumped vdimm to 1.45/SOC 1.1, with GDM Disabled, bios set timings).
I had an issue with my old Seagate HDD, so I dropped mem/fabric to 3600/1800 thinking that was it, it wasn't, the old drive was just failing....
It's still sitting at 18/3600 right now, I haven't gone back in the bios since I swapped out the drive to an Evo 970.
I also haven't updated to the 1.70 bios for my board, it's 1.0.0.3ABB, and some folks are saying weaker boost clocks with it.

 

[Woomack]

So far I've tested maybe 14-15 memory kits on the Extreme4 and since BIOS 1.3 all seems fine. I had that CPU issue about which I mentioned but after switching the CPU all was fine.
All memory kits which I was testing so Corsair 3600 CL18 (2x), Crucial 3200/3600 (4x), G.Skill 3200/3600 (3x), HyperX (4000 2x) and Patriot 2666/3200/3600 (3x) could work at XMP/SPD without issues (one had no XMP). Memory kits between 2x8GB and 4x16GB. In 3 cases I had to disable gear down as the memory had CL17/19 in XMP.
Most of mentioned memory kits were working about the same on Gigabyte X570.