DDR 3200 RAM running at 2400 issue.

johntmanic · 28 Apr 2021 at 08:13

Hi people,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me.

I recently picked up a 2nd hand PC and it has one stick of 16GB DDR4 2666 RAM in it and I wanted to upgrade it to 32GB DDR4 3200.

No matter what I do I can't get the RAM to run at 3200. I've tried with XMP on and it does nothing, I've tried to manually clock it (I think I'm doing it right) but it always does a memory train and still runs it as 2400.

My system is the following -
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Motherboard - MSI B350 Gaming Pro Carbon (MS-7B00) - bios is up to date.
RAM - 4 x Kingston HyperX Fury RGB DDR4 3200MHz HX432C16FB3AK2/16

Some CPU-Z Screenshots here if needed......

Any help would be great.

Thanks a lot.

Journey · 28 Apr 2021 at 08:17

You'll be lucky to get DDR4 running at 3200MHz on a Ryzen 5 1600, unless it has Samsung B-die IC's on it. Set it to XMP profile one for 2933Mhz first, and see if the system boots and runs stable, then try profile 2.

johntmanic · 28 Apr 2021 at 09:13

Journey said:
You'll be lucky to get DDR4 running at 3200MHz on a Ryzen 5 1600, unless it has Samsung B-die IC's on it. Set it to XMP profile one for 2933Mhz first, and see if the system boots and runs stable, then try profile 2.

Hi mate, thanks for the reply.

I've done as you said and I can't get 2933 to work at all. I've switched XMP off and tried quite a few of the memory settings and the best I can get out of it (without it keep restarting) is 2800. I think that is the best I can do without changing the CPU etc.

It's better than what it was though.

Thanks again.

Journey · 28 Apr 2021 at 09:15

johntmanic said:
Hi mate, thanks for the reply.

I've done as you said and I can't get 2933 to work at all. I've switched XMP off and tried quite a few of the memory settings and the best I can get out of it (without it keep restarting) is 2800. I think that is the best I can do without changing the CPU etc.

It's better than what it was though.

Thanks again.

No problem, the IMC inside the Zen (1) based parts wasn't amazing, and it had some compatibility issues so at 2800MHz you are doing OK, especially with 4x 8GB DIMM's. You'll find very few people who ran/run 4 DIMM's on that generation of CPU, the 2 x16GB is a bit more forgiving.

MaXxBoulton · 28 Apr 2021 at 19:06

Journey said:
No problem, the IMC inside the Zen (1) based parts wasn't amazing, and it had some compatibility issues so at 2800MHz you are doing OK, especially with 4x 8GB DIMM's. You'll find very few people who ran/run 4 DIMM's on that generation of CPU, the 2 x16GB is a bit more forgiving.

yep what this man said, my self (1600) and brother (1700x) couldn’t get stable ram passed 2666mhz running 2800mhz with a matching infiaty fabric good