Should I upgrade my motherboard?

[Gray2233]

@everyone - out of interest - does ram training always happen? Just I cant say i've ever noticed before.

Case in point I updated the bios on my 5700x3d/b550 MSI board the other day and aside from the rebooting and normal bios update stuff, it didnt really seem to take any longer than usual? the build is only a few months old but the existing bios was about 8 months old, IRRC, so I just updated when i was bored...

It's a DDR5 thing more than anything and you're on a DDR4 platform, it wont happen every single time just first boot or if you edit RAM settings or do a bios reset.

If you are having it happen every time for some reason try turning on memory context restore in the bios.

 

[mattyfez]

It's a DDR5 thing more than anything and you're on a DDR4 platform, it wont happen every single time just first boot or if you edit RAM settings or do a bios reset.

If you are having it happen every time for some reason try turning on memory context restore in the bios.

Ahh right.
My intel system is DDR5 but still it doesnt seem to happen - is it an AMD thing then?

 

[Gray2233]

Ahh right.
My intel system is DDR5 but still it doesnt seem to happen - is it an AMD thing then?

They both need to train memory, but it can take longer on AM5 from what I've seen and experienced. The biggest issues after initial training with the platform are (or were) longer boot times by comparison to Intel platforms.

For whatever reason DDR5 essentially needs to be calibrated to work properly (I might be using the wrong terminology here), the exacts of why I couldn't tell you outside of guesswork.