RAM not working as it should??

[carsyboy]

hello

long winded post but here goes. i currently use this motherboard https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-321-ms.html

my son uses this board https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-322-ms.html

we have both been using 8gb ddr4 3200 ram https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...nel-kit-black-red-tdprd48g3200-my-073-tg.html

for almost a year and countless bios updates on both boards we have never managed to get the ram to run above the default 2133 speeds.

on tuesday my son purchased this ram https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...al-channel-kit-rgb-white-tf2d4-my-08n-tg.html

straight out the box it defaulted to 3200 and is running perfectly.

however after 6 hours constantly trying the 4 x 4gb sticks of the 3200 ram will not post on 3 seperate boards ( 2 mentioned and a gigabyte ga-ab350m at anything above 2133 ) above 2133 default settings.

is anyone able to offer me any suggestions as to what i should try next to at least get close to what the ram should be running at please.

tried the usual mem checks etc and no problems with the ram whatsoever and all 4 work fine on a mates intel board.

its about 11 months since they were purchased so doubt i will be able to get a refund and TBH i cant be bothered with the hassle of returning items for them to check them and say no problem when their clearly is somewhere

any help isgreatly appreciated

TIA

 

[carsyboy]

yeah i have set it manually as well ( 16/16/16/16/36 ) but no matter what it always defaults to 2133.

on a side note i can now get any combo of the 4 x 4gb sticks to work at 3200 now the problem i have is when all 4 sticks are running together.

apart from the timings i mentioned in the first sentence i have left all other settings on auto is there anything else i should be looking at or are those settings incorrect or better alternatives???

TIA

 

[carsyboy]

When you say it defaults to 2133 what exactly do you mean? Unless you select the XMP profile in the RAM configuration it WILL default to 2133. The XMP sets voltage, frequency and timing. If the XMP doesn't work hen you have to manually enter all of those settings and then reduce the frequency until it works. If the memory runs happily at a reduced frequency then you may also reduce the timing and or voltage. So say it only runs at 2133, then you may be able to adjust the timing on the RAM to 14 14 14 32. I mean you have to fiddle about and it takes a while. XMP makes it easy but it's not guaranteed to work, and invariably doen't produce the best results.

what i was meaning if i clear the cmos to defaults the ram runs fine at 2133. ANY other tweaking whether its XMP or manually inputting timings the pc will not boot and power cycle a few times and revert to the default of 2133. doesnt matter if i try any combination of timing settings it will only ever boot at 2133. i cant even get 2400 to load into windows with 4 sticks of ram installed

 

[carsyboy]

Hi,

The problem is that for some odd reason that memory is stated for use with Intel Skylake systems only.
The one purchased by your son, has Ryzen compatibility included.

If there is something very specific in the modules themselves, you will never be able to get around it with the current motherboard and processor.

when we phoned up to double check was told it was fine and as i said when only 2 sticks are in fires up at 3200 no problems. no matter what i cant get it past 2133