RAM and new Ryzen build

strumpusplunket · 1 Jul 2018 at 22:52

I upgraded my old 2500k to a new Ryzen build last week (R5 2600X, Strix X-470-F, 8-Pack 3200MHz RAM), and all looked okay initially, but...

This motherboard defaults to a 2400MHz RAM speed. I've played around with RAM speed settings and voltages, but it seems it just won't even POST, let alone boot at any speed above 2933MHz (and even that was unstable in Windows).

I've never looked into RAM tweaking before, and I now find I don't even know the abbreviations enough to fill in the Ryzen RAM calculator.

I would really appreciate some help here.

Jamin280672 · 2 Jul 2018 at 08:55

strumpusplunket said:
I upgraded my old 2500k to a new Ryzen build last week (R5 2600X, Strix X-470-F, 8-Pack 3200MHz RAM), and all looked okay initially, but...

This motherboard defaults to a 2400MHz RAM speed. I've played around with RAM speed settings and voltages, but it seems it just won't even POST, let alone boot at any speed above 2933MHz (and even that was unstable in Windows).

I've never looked into RAM tweaking before, and I now find I don't even know the abbreviations enough to fill in the Ryzen RAM calculator.

I would really appreciate some help here.

Raise your SoC voltage to 1.100v make sure your RAM is getting 1.35v in the bios, also are you manually bumping it upto 2933mhz or using XMP.

My Trident Z's have 2 XMP settings, profile 1 is 2933mhz, profile 2 is 3200mhz.

orbitalwalsh · 2 Jul 2018 at 09:08

strumpusplunket said:
I upgraded my old 2500k to a new Ryzen build last week (R5 2600X, Strix X-470-F, 8-Pack 3200MHz RAM), and all looked okay initially, but...

This motherboard defaults to a 2400MHz RAM speed. I've played around with RAM speed settings and voltages, but it seems it just won't even POST, let alone boot at any speed above 2933MHz (and even that was unstable in Windows).

I've never looked into RAM tweaking before, and I now find I don't even know the abbreviations enough to fill in the Ryzen RAM calculator.

I would really appreciate some help here.

Aorus

but as I mentioned before, AMD RAM Calculator is your friend, regardless of board vendor, model or memory make

http://www.overclock.net/forum/13-a...lator-1-1-0-beta-2-overclocking-dram-am4.html

strumpusplunket · 2 Jul 2018 at 09:10

Jamin280672 said:
Raise your SoC voltage to 1.100v make sure your RAM is getting 1.35v in the bios, also are you manually bumping it upto 2933mhz or using XMP.

My Trident Z's have 2 XMP settings, profile 1 is 2933mhz, profile 2 is 3200mhz.

orbitalwalsh said:
Aorus

but as I mentioned before, AMD RAM Calculator is your friend, regardless of board vendor, model or memory make

http://www.overclock.net/forum/13-a...lator-1-1-0-beta-2-overclocking-dram-am4.html

Thanks for your input, guys, but it turns out this was all down to a noobish error on my part. I had the RAM in the wrong slots!

But @orbitalwalsh - I had a loaded up the RAM calculator, but I just have no idea what half the figures it wants are (RCDRD, RFC, RRDS, etc.). I can find the usual ones easily enough (CL, RPO, RAS, etc.), but these other ones - no bloody idea!

Jamin280672 · 2 Jul 2018 at 09:24

strumpusplunket said:
Thanks for your input, guys, but it turns out this was all down to a noobish error on my part. I had the RAM in the wrong slots!

But @orbitalwalsh - I had a loaded up the RAM calculator, but I just have no idea what half the figures it wants are (RCDRD, RFC, RRDS, etc.). I can find the usual ones easily enough (CL, RPO, RAS, etc.), but these other ones - no bloody idea!

Putting the sticks in the 1st and 3rd slots is a very common mistake, they just make it more confusing by making these the secondary slots.

strumpusplunket · 2 Jul 2018 at 09:29

Jamin280672 said:
the other ones as you put it are auto loaded when you select XMP, then sub timings when you select safe setting, extreme settings etc and choose the first few options, like what type of ram you have, Hynix chips, micron, Samsung etc.

Ohhh yeah. I couldn't figure this out yesterday. It kept saying "enter the values!" when I clicked anything, but yes, selected XMP first then allows me to select the other settings. Thanks!

Jamin280672 said:
Putting the sticks in the 1st and 3rd slots is a very common mistake, they just make it more confusing by making these the secondary slots.

Well, that's good to know. I felt a proper fool!

orbitalwalsh · 2 Jul 2018 at 09:41

you'll find if your a user that swaps boards around a lot from different manufacturers , they all name their slots different but often use slots 2 and 4

Takes a while to do ram calculator and even more when entering them in bios but worth it

strumpusplunket · 2 Jul 2018 at 09:43

orbitalwalsh said:
you'll find if your a user that swaps boards around a lot from different manufacturers , they all name their slots different but often use slots 2 and 4

Takes a while to do ram calculator and even more when entering them in bios but worth it

Yeah, I can imagine!

For now I'm just relieved to be at 3200CL14. I'll get to more tweaking later.

I also need to get my head around the CPU BIOS settings, and set the XFR and Boost gubbins up right (it looks like these are called something different in the Asus BIOS?)

Jamin280672 · 2 Jul 2018 at 11:00

strumpusplunket said:
Yeah, I can imagine!

For now I'm just relieved to be at 3200CL14. I'll get to more tweaking later.

I also need to get my head around the CPU BIOS settings, and set the XFR and Boost gubbins up right (it looks like these are called something different in the Asus BIOS?)

DCOP in the asus bios, but if your ram is C14 3200mhz, then its got to Samsung B die, the best currently out there, once you get used to playing, it will probably do C16 3600mhz, maybe even C15 depending on how strong your mem controller is in the CPU.

EDIT sorry read that wrong, thought you meant XMP not XFR

The boost is called precision boost and the XFR is called something along the lines of core performance boost or extended frequency range, just set them to enabled or auto, the CPU itself will do the rest for you.