3200mhz Memory Overclock

father-ted · 5 Jan 2020 at 20:32

Hi,

Total noob at memory o/c, so been following some tutorials on how to o/c my Dark Pro 8PACK 3200mhz 16gb kit.

3600mhz kit was out of stock, so I purchased the 3200.
They run great at 3200, CL14
I can o/c them to 3600, CL16 - can’t seem to get CL14 stable......or do I just need to persevere and keep trying?
Boot into windows fine but get errors on testing.

Thanks

father-ted · 6 Jan 2020 at 12:20

Will have another try tonight, will reset and start again in case I have missed something silly

father-ted · 7 Jan 2020 at 13:48

https://ibb.co/3yd2Jbs

I am guessing I have something wrong somewhere - voltages maybe?

father-ted · 7 Jan 2020 at 14:34

Ryzen yes. Gear down turned off - should it be on?

father-ted · 7 Jan 2020 at 17:27

Will try safe settings instead of fasty from DRAM Calc when I get in

father-ted · 7 Jan 2020 at 17:49

https://ibb.co/t4t7759
DRAM Safe Settings

https://ibb.co/XjDFVCP
https://ibb.co/Tg3zP5q
Current bios settings (Gigabtye Master x570)

Will run another test on these safe settings tonight to see how it goes

Thanks for your help

father-ted · 8 Jan 2020 at 10:22

https://ibb.co/26SYsGs
https://ibb.co/SdPtfp3
https://ibb.co/4f618nB

Memtest completed last night with no errors, safe settings.
For some reason though it showed my ram as set at 3600mhz - when in the bios it is set at 3800mhz
Above are the current bios settings, what am I doing wrong or what am I missing please?

father-ted · 8 Jan 2020 at 13:36

Thanks Wesley.
What settings should I look at tightening up tonight, as a next step?

father-ted · 8 Jan 2020 at 17:09

Hi,
In CPUZ it is showing as 1900mhz DDR - so 3800
Seems strange that Memtest sees it as 3600?

What settings do I need to start tightening, from the safe settings please?

father-ted · 10 Jan 2020 at 17:42

Ok done that and it ran through Memtest ok.
What do I need to tighten next please?

Thanks

father-ted · 10 Jan 2020 at 19:39

Already have pictures on my phone.
Will try lowering trfc now

father-ted · 11 Jan 2020 at 11:05

trfc 280 gives errors
Have it down to 320 stable - will keep lowering and testing

Thanks for your help

father-ted · 18 Jan 2020 at 12:54

Memory o/c been running fine for several days - passes memtest fine
Just checked benchmarks in AIDA64 and get these results:
Read - 56455 MB/s
Write - 30389MB/s
Copy - 53263 MB/s
Latency - 67.6ns

The 'write' looks very low - or is this ok?

CL 16
RCD 16
RP 16
RAS 32

father-ted · 18 Jan 2020 at 13:28

Ok thanks - was worried that I had tightened things a little too far somewhere

father-ted · 19 Jan 2020 at 12:05

With a bit more tweaking, got the latency down to 64.7

father-ted · 25 Jan 2020 at 17:42

I started with the values from the DRAM Calc - but fast settings at first were not stable and gave me errors (I did have a major issue at first, causing me to re-install W10 as could not recover no matter what I tried (wasted a full day on it as well)).
A weekend of tweaking and retrying solved it for me = now stable and passing all tests.