Hi folks,
Looking for a bit of advice here. My computer started flaking out a week or two back - good excuse to upgrade
So I bought one of the new Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 motherboards as they are on offer this week, along with a 3820 cpu and a Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (4X4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Quad Channel kit (PV316G213C1QK) to go with it, as the board info says it support speeds up to 2133 and I've had good experience with Patriot kits in the past.
OK, get everything set up, machine boots fine. Go into the UEFI bios and switch the memory from its Default timings of 1600MHz to the XMP profile to allow the RAM to run at its rated 2133MHz. Save and reboot.... and nothing. Fans spin, the lights are on... but no-one's home. No POST, no warning beeps... nothing. OK, so I clear the CMOS. And try again. Machine boots fine with default settings, but again craps out if I switch the RAM to XMP.
Now, I get that this is a brand new motherboard from Gigabyte. So I guess my question is: see if Overclockers will RMA the kit and swap it for another - in which case I was wondering if anyone else here has one of these boards and has had better luck with a 4x4Gb kit and could let me know what they are using - or keep the kit and see if Gigabyte improve memory support with a future BIOS update? The machine is fine with the RAM at 1600MHz.
Any help/advice much appreciated
EDIT: Sept 1: OK, according to Patriot, Gigabyte's X79 boards aren't currently working past 1600MHz with any RAM when reading XMP profile data (whether they mean all RAM from all manufacturers or just all the RAM kits Patriot make they didn't make clear) and that Patriot's engineers are working with Gigabyte to sort this out, hopefully via a BIOS upgrade. Fingers crossed....
Looking for a bit of advice here. My computer started flaking out a week or two back - good excuse to upgrade
So I bought one of the new Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 motherboards as they are on offer this week, along with a 3820 cpu and a Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (4X4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Quad Channel kit (PV316G213C1QK) to go with it, as the board info says it support speeds up to 2133 and I've had good experience with Patriot kits in the past.OK, get everything set up, machine boots fine. Go into the UEFI bios and switch the memory from its Default timings of 1600MHz to the XMP profile to allow the RAM to run at its rated 2133MHz. Save and reboot.... and nothing. Fans spin, the lights are on... but no-one's home. No POST, no warning beeps... nothing. OK, so I clear the CMOS. And try again. Machine boots fine with default settings, but again craps out if I switch the RAM to XMP.
Now, I get that this is a brand new motherboard from Gigabyte. So I guess my question is: see if Overclockers will RMA the kit and swap it for another - in which case I was wondering if anyone else here has one of these boards and has had better luck with a 4x4Gb kit and could let me know what they are using - or keep the kit and see if Gigabyte improve memory support with a future BIOS update? The machine is fine with the RAM at 1600MHz.
Any help/advice much appreciated
EDIT: Sept 1: OK, according to Patriot, Gigabyte's X79 boards aren't currently working past 1600MHz with any RAM when reading XMP profile data (whether they mean all RAM from all manufacturers or just all the RAM kits Patriot make they didn't make clear) and that Patriot's engineers are working with Gigabyte to sort this out, hopefully via a BIOS upgrade. Fingers crossed....
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