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Recycling the images used before...
First system I tried it in was a Dell desktop at work. It had an i7-8700 (non-K) in it, with C246 chipset. There were no ram adjustments I could see in bios so it would only run at 2133, the highest SPD profile included. It worked ok but obviously wasn't going to show its full potential. I do wonder why don't ram manufacturers include higher SPD speeds. I don't care the timings might be JEDEC slack but at least we get the speed too.
Now at home I put it in my Ryzen 1700 + Asus X370 Prime Pro system. Remember all the ram problems we had when Ryzen originally launched? That is so far away now. I put the 4 modules in, turned on XMP, and it booted first time. These modules are dual rank, and I'm using two per channel. If there ever was a memory load, this is one.
Ok, is it stable? I haven't done in depth testing, but I gave it 6 minutes of Aida64 stress test with only ram selected, and 3 minutes of a custom Prime95 run. Not a huge amount by any means, but it should rule out any major instability.
Right now I'm trying to bench y-cruncher on it. At 3.9 GHz it gave slightly faster times for 1B than my previous run at... some slower ram speed. 10B is erroring out, but it is probably the CPU overclock as temps are rather marginal and I'm cranking up the voltage. Will probably have to drop that.