I am more concerned about reliability and longevity than speed as I don't play games. But again how can I know if am getting CJR, DJR or JJR? Is a QVL reliable source for information?
Good luck with whatever you choose I can only give my own opinion and experience. DDR4 Ram you will be pretty much be good with anything on any system you pick and the Ram does not have to be on the QVL. If you go with the more expensive build with DDR5 just buy a set of Ram that is on the OVL. You also will be fine and if you do not PC game then Ram will also not really matter at all,unless you need it for a specific program that actually uses Ram. Some of that experience stuff I just spouted. Some of the Ram off the top of my head that worked on Intel / AMD setups fine G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (F4-3200C16S-32GVK) G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (F4-3600C19D-32GVRB) G.Skill Trident Z 16GB DDR4(F4-4000C18D-16GTZ) G.SKILL Ripjaws V (F4-4000C17D-32GVKB) Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (PVS416G413C9k) Two different sets for 32GB Some setups I have run with different 9 different CPU's,4 or 5 different Motherboards and at least 4 or 5 sets of Ram not on QVL list and they were all fine 100%. Spoiler Ryzen 2600X 4350Mhz run with Cinbench ,AIDA64 Memory test 3466Mhz - YouTube AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Cinebench R20 in 2019 - YouTube The Golf Club 2020 AMD 3600XT PBO Boost 4700Mhz - YouTube Bioshock Remastered Amd 3800X Boost 4650 Mhz - YouTube RTX 3080 3800XT The Dark Pictures Anthology - Little Hope - YouTube Shadow of the Tomb Raider AMD 5150Mhz - YouTube Cyberpunk 2077 OSD 4K HDR RTX 3080 - YouTube Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12900K 5600Mhz Crazy Voltage - YouTube
If you want to find out what chips modules are using before your purchase, you usually have to contact the manufacturer directly sadly. Hynix CJR and DJR are reliable, Micron E die is reliable and Samsung B-die are reliable from my knowledge - I'd actually say that the Crucial Ballistix are probably some of the best budget ram, best value/performance currently
Probably because they can't confirm without looking at serial numbers as like I said earlier, modules get speed binned, it's pot luck what you get really
I can't find Crucial Ballistix, but maybe I could find CT8G4DFRA32A (8GB) or CT2K8G4DFRA32A (2X8GB). Are these worth considering?
most ram sticks should be fine now, there aren't really any new ddr4 ics that haven't been validated on am4, the qvl can be considered as guidance, for example, if you buy a kit of memory that uses the exact same chips and the same timings as one on the qvl. there isn't any reason it wouldn't work. there can be some differences with really high speed kits (>4000mt/s) due to different pcbs, but other than that all else is pretty much equal. I wouldn't worry too much. worst case you just have to return the kit and get another one.
