SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 4. The compatible ssd’'s are up to a speed of 7.300MB/s for the WD sn850x. But there are PCI Express 5.0 x4 ssd like the samsung 9100pro PCI Express 5.0 x4 that have speed reading of up to 14.700MB/s. Are PCI Express 5.0 x4 compatible with the framework 16 v2?. Or does framework only test and guranthee the WD discs? PCIe 5.0 x4 should be backward compatible with PCIe Gen 4?
Dram is DDR5-5600 speeds. Wil newer dram with higher speed work, (on the lower limited 5600 speed) to reuse it in a few years when the framework motherboard will be also be compatible for higher speeds?
SSD compatibility isn’t a thing the way that RAM compatibility is. You can use any PCIe nvme drive. PCIe gen 5 drives are backwards compatible, and will operate at gen 4 speeds.
For RAM, I’d recommend just getting something off the compatibility list. I’m fairly certain the AMD boards so far all have the same RAM compatibility list, so I would be very surprised if the new FW16 board is different. In the video about what didn’t make the cut for the gen 2 FW16, they suggested as much (but did not explicitly say so), and mentioned a new 64GB ram module they’re validating.
You might be able to get different speeds to “future proof”, but more likely you will need new RAM for the new board by the time you actually upgrade because it’s LPCAMM2 or DDR6 or whatever
I pre-ordered the FW16 board Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370. Current have Ryzen9 7940HS board. I intend to use my existing PCIe 5.0 Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB SSD and 64GB Kingston Fury DDR5 5600 RAM and do not anticipate any compatibility issues. This is my decision and any Risk for potential incompatibility is mine. Can’t wait for the new board!
PS: the 9100 Pro SSD will also run at PCIe 4.0 speed as it currently does with FW16 Ryzen9 7940HS board.
The only gotcha that seems to exist is to not use RAM that is CL40 (I think this is what Mushkin claim), but stick to CL45 RAM. The CL40 apparently works with the 7x40 series processors but folk who have bought the FL13 with AI 300 series CPUs had problems with it which went away when they swapped in CL45 RAM. I have no reason to believe that this will have changed with the new FL16 CPU.
I hope it will be compatible as I have pre-ordered the Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 main board as part of Batch 2. I plan to use my existing 64GB Kingston Fury DDR5 5600 RAM and the Samsung 4TB 9100 Pro which I am using in my current FW16 Ryzen9 7940HS. It would be a shame if either of these components would not be compatible with the new board.
We understand that you want to make sure which RAM is compatible with our new Framework 16, which is most likely will be the same as the one for 7040; However, we are not yet sure, and we are still waiting for our team to release the knowledge base about it, so we cannot guarantee.
About your second question, the full validation RAMs are, the RAM check passed, and all applicable validation steps/tests were executed and verified. The result is fully trusted and complete.
For the Limited Validation, the RAM check passed, but only a subset of validations were performed; there are some test that has no result or tests that cannot be performed. Mostly, it was reviewed by some test users as well.
So, I assume the motherboard compatibility wit the memory is key, not the processor?
@Machine your memory then would still work in the new one.
About limited validation: anyone knows what the limited testing exactly means? What is a good testing procedure? Any software tips?
general: I wait till official support page is live and order the memory when the laptop arrives so I can test the memory in its 14 day no question garanthee period we have in the Eu.
- keep us posted, please! Thanks!