Gigabyte B450 Pro, 2600X 16gb, 3000mhz ram OC

[Marc2180]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600X 4.20GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £194.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £99.95
• 1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £56.99

Total: £472.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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I have the above items arriving today to upgrade my PC from old X58 i7 920 and 12gb ddr3 1600mhz ram.

First thing i will be doing on the install is updating the bios to the latest from the manufacturer and it will be a fresh install of windows 10 onto the SSD.

Doing some reading about the RAM will only run at the 3000mhz if it is overclocked to do so, otherwise it will run at a lower speed. What do i need to do to get the memory running at full speed? I'm not fussed about overclocking the CPU at this point as only using the stock cooler with the 2600X

The blurb from the motherboard says "The four RAM slots support up to 64 GB DDR4-RAM with a clock frequency of up to 2.667 MHz and this can be increased to up to 3.200 MHz with overclocking. " Is it just a case of enabling XMP and that's all i need to do?

 

[mattyfez]

If the motherboard plays nice with the RAM it should just be a case of enabling XMP.
Ryzen can be picky with ram, is the ram you have officially supported by the board?

 

[Marc2180]

If the motherboard plays nice with the RAM it should just be a case of enabling XMP.
Ryzen can be picky with ram, is the ram you have officially supported by the board?

I have no idea to be honest. Ocuk sell bundles of the cpu with this ram, but with Asus boards. Not sure how to find out if the gigabyte board supports it.

 

[dlresponse]

Ryzen can be picky with ram

Do you mean in a purely overclocking context or just day to day performance?

 

[Marc2180]

I'm not interested in overclocking the cpu, I'm happy with everything running the best they can at stock. I know the cpu autoboosts itself, my concern is that I have 3000mhz ram that won't be running at 3000mhz

 

[PiKe]

1700 is cheaper and has 8c/16t Vs 6c/12t but you might rather have the tiny IPC increase the 2000 series gives?

 

[Marc2180]

1700 is cheaper and has 8c/16t Vs 6c/12t but you might rather have the tiny IPC increase the 2000 series gives?

My question is not about my choice of CPU. But how to get the most from the ram so it runs full speed

 

[lee32uk]

No need to mess with the bios unless the system isn't behaving. If the pc boots fine and the ram runs at the rated speed etc once you enable xmp then leave the bios alone imo.

 

[lee32uk]

My question is not about my choice of CPU. But how to get the most from the ram so it runs full speed

Enable XMP. It is under the M.I.T tab in the bios.

 

[mattyfez]

What Lee said.
It should just run at 3000 with XMP enabled.

 

[Marc2180]

Thanks guys, XMP it is.

The reason i want to update the bios before doing anything is because of the updates provided by the latest bios for my board:

F3b
8.26 MB
2018/10/04
Asia China America Europe

1. Enhance CPU Vcore voltage control

F2
8.26 MB
2018/08/08
Asia China America Europe

1. Improve memory compatibility.

F1
8.26 MB
2018/06/20
Asia China America Europe

1. First Release
2. AGESA 1.0.0.4

Obviously if the board is shipped with the up-to-date bios then i wont touch it, but considering the updates relate to memory compatibility and CPU core voltage control, i think i'd rather update it so the components run to the best of their ability.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

if manually overclocking, vcore update is worth it , as well as more ram compatibility

 

[viragka]

Will be interrested what are the results, I'm thinking on the same RAM.

 

[Marc2180]

Flashed bios with no issue. Installed windows no issue. Back into bios, enabled XMP profile 1 saved and exit and no issues. Showing 3000mhz instead of 2400mhz on ram. The bios was on the original F1 so I'm glad I did the BIOS update.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

I think you can get that ram to run at 3200 c16 with a bit of messing.

 

[Marc2180]

i'm not really interested in overclocking. i'm happy with them running at max stock speeds. Fired up the vive last night and the image quality is noticably better and smoother so i'm very happy with my purchase

 

[viragka]

i'm not really interested in overclocking. i'm happy with them running at max stock speeds. Fired up the vive last night and the image quality is noticably better and smoother so i'm very happy with my purchase

I'll order a similar build soon, do you play on 1440p or 4K?

 

[Marc2180]

I'll order a similar build soon, do you play on 1440p or 4K?

neither, its a VR machine in my livingroom so its hooked up to my HD TV purely as a "secondary" monitor to set up the VR and I play on my HTC VIVE.

 

[Marc2180]

The gigabyte Aorus elite is on sale just now cheaper than the tomahawk but is out of stock, they'll probably get them back in stock pretty quick, i got the last PRO board they had in stock when i ordered on tuesday and they are showing as back in stock today.

 

[viragka]

Aorus Elite sounds good, I've seen an another MSI B450 as well.