Ram wont stay at 3600Mhz

Nevakonaza · 3 Jul 2021 at 12:45

Hey guys,

Have the setup in sig,My ram is a 3600Mhz kit of Corsair LP and has worked flawless at XMP 3600Mhz in other boards (AMD & Intel) but i cant seem to get it to stay at 3600Mhz on this board.

I apply the XMP and it reports as 3600Mhz in windows, will be fine for a while then on another boot the bios will say its failed boot and restored bios to default and ram goes all the way down to 2400Mhz lol.

Is this a limitation of the new Z590 chipset or something? as i have installed the latest bios for my board which is suppose to make this board capable of 4600+.

Appreciate any help

Nevakonaza · 3 Jul 2021 at 18:38

Hiya mate,

CPU is stock, I never overclock any of my CPUs,Really no need to with a i7 11700K as it boosts up to 5Ghz on its own,ive seen it go to 5.2.
Latest bios is installed, Unsure where id start setting them manually..i thought that was the whole point of XMP.

Nevakonaza · 3 Jul 2021 at 23:01

Joxeon said:
Does it work ok if you change to gear mode 2?

Well I've just applied Gear mode 2 while set at 3600Mhz so lets see if it stays that way.

This is what confuses me,HWinfo states "Maximum memory supported clock 1600Mhz" Which i assume actually means 3200Mhz

But the latest BIOS for my motherboard says it now supports up to 5000 (i have this latest bios installed)

Nevakonaza · 4 Jul 2021 at 16:28

Changing it to Gear Mode 2 then selecting 3600 XMP seems to have worked, Its not reset back to 2066 since after about 4 shutdowns and start-ups at various times so hopefully that's sorted now.

Nevakonaza · 5 Jul 2021 at 19:05

Well that was short lived, Windows update today, Installed updates and system restarted (for the updates to apply) then upon restarting bios back to stock again lol.

Guess I'm going to have to downclock it to 3200Mhz and see if it stays there, Intel really must not like anything past 3200Mhz.

Nevakonaza · 9 Jul 2021 at 12:15

It has to be a Z590 issue, I've purposely left the ram at 2066 for a few days and seemed fine then bam this morning, Boot failure again bios returned to "stock" settings even though it IS at stock settings and has been at 2066mhz ram for a few days.

Il have to throw Gigabyte support a message see if they can look into this issue, I don't hold my hopes up though.

Nevakonaza · 7 Aug 2021 at 14:12

So a month later I'm still having this issue, I've been in talks back and fourth with Gigabyte and they've asked me a ton of questions all which i tried, Asked me to run memtest so i did for 24 hours absolutely no issues reported with ram (i knew there wouldn't be),They then asked me to check the CPU socket to see if there is any damaged pins etc.. All seem absolutely fine I've had a good luck with a magnifying glass and good amount of light..no problems there.
Although been unable to message them back for 2 days, their E-support page is down and i don't think they've even realised yet lol.

Glanza said:
On the latest bios?

Yep,latest bios..made no changes at all.