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Hi all. Been a while since I dropped by here, but just wanted to bounce off you my recent experience with a £500 budget build I've just put together. Did some back seat research on here a few weeks ago and went with a system I thought would do the trick. In fact, a lot of the recommended builds to budget ratio were very similar and suggested the [AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.90GHz AM4 CPU] and [Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz RAM].
Anyway, build went ahead sweetly and we got a first time boot. Windows Home installed and away we went with some light gaming.
Unfortunately, we started experiencing BSOD's and the odd blackout. We started diagnostics with Windows native memory checker and also ran memtest86 and errors were thrown in abundance.
Just gave OcUK support a call to arrange an RMA and there was no issue there. What the tech did say however was that the CPU and Mem were not a good pairing, as that particular CPU does not like memory speeds over 3000.
I am going to enable XMP and try and step down the memory to 3000 or less and see if it stabilises, but failing that, OcUK are happy to exchange (great CS as usual).
Just wondered if anyone else had experienced any issues with that CPU/RAM combo?
Regards
Anyway, build went ahead sweetly and we got a first time boot. Windows Home installed and away we went with some light gaming.
Unfortunately, we started experiencing BSOD's and the odd blackout. We started diagnostics with Windows native memory checker and also ran memtest86 and errors were thrown in abundance.
Just gave OcUK support a call to arrange an RMA and there was no issue there. What the tech did say however was that the CPU and Mem were not a good pairing, as that particular CPU does not like memory speeds over 3000.
I am going to enable XMP and try and step down the memory to 3000 or less and see if it stabilises, but failing that, OcUK are happy to exchange (great CS as usual).
Just wondered if anyone else had experienced any issues with that CPU/RAM combo?
Regards
