Team Group Dark Pro "8 Pack Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C14 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black

16gb plenty for gaming. On Intel 32gb no issue same speed upto around 3733-3866mhz. Amd depends on boards and cpu imc. High end boards has a much better chance of doing really well. The mems can always go high the limit is cpu and board.
 
latest x370-f bios update has the 3600mhz ram sticks running stable at 3466 @ stock volts and cas16. previously I couldn't get it to train above 3420 ish with any timings
 
Just ordered the 16gb set to go with my 8700k and Z370-E motherboard. Hopefully everything is ok, more focus seemed to be with AMD hardware with this memory, maybe that was due to the issues with ryzen. Anyway..... 8 pack, I've just watched the video you made for this memory. Wouldnt it be faster to keep the memory at XMP rather than oc'ing it to 3866 at a higher CAS rating ? I always thought lower CAS is faster no matter the speed. So 3200 @ CAS 14 would be faster than 3866 @ CAS 18 ?
 
^ It should be fine. I couldn't get either of my kits to XMP speeds on either of my Ryzen platforms. With 8700K/Z370 it was simply drop in, set XMP and no looking back.
 
LambChop said:
Just ordered the 16gb set to go with my 8700k and Z370-E motherboard. Hopefully everything is ok, more focus seemed to be with AMD hardware with this memory, maybe that was due to the issues with ryzen. Anyway..... 8 pack, I've just watched the video you made for this memory. Wouldnt it be faster to keep the memory at XMP rather than oc'ing it to 3866 at a higher CAS rating ? I always thought lower CAS is faster no matter the speed. So 3200 @ CAS 14 would be faster than 3866 @ CAS 18 ?
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No its not focused on amd as such. Intel works perfectly.... It's always a trade off with latency settings and speed. Only way to run c14 at 3866 is with high voltage otherwise you have to compromise something. For me in testing for performance it was really diminished returns after 16-16-16 at 3600mhz..
 
8 Pack said:
No its not focused on amd as such. Intel works perfectly.... It's always a trade off with latency settings and speed. Only way to run c14 at 3866 is with high voltage otherwise you have to compromise something. For me in testing for performance it was really diminished returns after 16-16-16 at 3600mhz..
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Thanks 8pack. Cant wait to try your memory. Think I'll stick with XMP though. CAS 14 is crazy.
 
I can't get these to run stable at xmp during games, they can pass stability tests all day at 3200 1.45v but play a game and eventually it will crash. Just ran them on auto (2133 cas 15) for 2 days to test and no game crashes. Poor IMC on my processor? CPU is a 1700 @ 3.6
 
Are you on the latest bios ?

If you are you could try upping soc and vcore a little. When I went from 16gb to 32gb I needed to up vcore from 1.2 to 1.25 to be completely stable. I have 1.13 soc and 1.4v dram voltage. Like you say you may just be a bit unlucky, but most can easily hit 3.7ghz with no problems with 3200c14.

Games like bf1 are good at showing up instability even when other tests pass fine.
 
Sounds like you are very unlucky. Might be worth resetting the bios just in case and starting again with your settings from scratch.


You could try the next ram divider down which used to be 3066 depending on the bios rather than 3200. Others may be able to make more suggestions to try.
 
In my experience with 2 x 8gb and upping the dram voltage to 1.4v it was stable at 3333c14 by simply choosing docp and changing the divider to 3333 or using the stilts 3466c15 preset in the motherboards bios. I am not bothered with extensive testing and tweaking, just want a fairly simple stable overclock.
 
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