Team Group Dark Pro "8Pack Edition" 16GB – help needed

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 18:17

Hi all,

Please redirect this post if it should be in the 'memory' section, but I thought it'd be okay here as I'm a novice looking for advice.

I bought this set of DDR4 earlier this year and firstly it was running really smoothly.
In around July my PC had many blue screens for a variety of reasons, but I managed to narrow it down to the PC not being able to run these at 3200mhz.

So, I lowered to 3000mhz and all is good.

However, I'm hoping I can get these back up to 3200 as there were at default.

I've got a X470 Aorus and R7 2700. I have not updated Bios since I've put this system together (always terrified of bricking it

)

Any advice would be appreciated, I'm always looking to learn more about the system and components but don't have the cash to go out and constantly buy and build so all help is beneficial to me!

Ps, what happened to the price of that Ram! Seems I got a bargain at £149.99

Cheers all,
Nathan

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 18:58

@Nathan Long

Aorus ultra board ? Should handle 3400hz same kit but Unused Ryzen ram Calculator .

Worth updating the bios as a new one has come out, don't worry if you brick bios, Gigabyte RMA is UK based and I'm sure they have made the bios chips plug and play now . Also all boards have a back up bios chip !

Install latest bios and enable XMP and see how you get on. From their should be able to offer some help tweaking

lee32uk · 14 Sep 2018 at 18:59

Hi

Is it the Aorus Ultra Gaming ? Or one of the Aorus Gaming 5/7 boards ?

Also what bios version is the board running ? You can use cpu-z to find out.

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 19:20

lee32uk said:
Aorus Ultra Gaming

That's the one

lee32uk said:
Also what bios version is the board running ?

Had this since preorder so it'll be an early one. Not at pc to be able to check

orbitalwalsh said:
don't worry if you brick bios, Gigabyte RMA is UK based and I'm sure they have made the bios chips plug and play now . Also all boards have a back up bios chip !

Well I didn't know that, that's a bit of a relief! Is there an official document that says that anywhere that I can read and learn? Don't remember seeing it in the manual.

orbitalwalsh said:
Install latest bios and enable XMP and see how you get on

I'll have to give it a go! If you hear screaming on Sunday, you know it's going poorly

Cheers both, any further answers would be great!

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:00

I did most of my ram clocking with 2nd bios, they are now on 4th with 5th coming soon .

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:05

I'm not savvy at all on Ram overclocking. My next plan is getting a new cooler and trying to overclock the CPU.
But yeah sorting out this ram would be a start! What would be the best way of updating bios?

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:24

Nathan Long said:
I'm not savvy at all on Ram overclocking. My next plan is getting a new cooler and trying to overclock the CPU.
But yeah sorting out this ram would be a start! What would be the best way of updating bios?

Download bios to a memory stick and then install from BIOS

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:27

Alright ta, I'll give that a look.
I've tried to find information on the backup bios but can't see it anywhere. Itd be interesting to read, ill see if it's in my manual later

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:31

Nathan Long said:
Alright ta, I'll give that a look.
I've tried to find information on the backup bios but can't see it anywhere. Itd be interesting to read, ill see if it's in my manual later

Something like holding power power and reset bottom or power button for 20 seconds jumps the bios

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:34

What jumps to a back up one should everything go Pete tong?

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:36

Nathan Long said:
What jumps to a back up one should everything go Pete tong?

Something like that, and give be you the option to copy bios of working one to corrupt one

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:36

Alright cheers, I'll give bios flash a go Sunday

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 20:57

Link Should I jump straight to F3 Update or go for an older one?

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 21:06

Jump to latest

lee32uk · 14 Sep 2018 at 21:06

Nathan Long said:
Link Should I jump straight to F3 Update or go for an older one?

No reason to go with an older one unless F3 is a beta version.

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 21:11

Brilliant thank you

You mention using a USB, is the internal BIOS internet connecting option not as reliable?

orbitalwalsh · 14 Sep 2018 at 21:34

Nathan Long said:
Brilliant thank you

You mention using a USB, is the internal BIOS internet connecting option not as reliable?

Never tried it , have done via flashing bios live in windows.. love russian roulette !

NathanL · 14 Sep 2018 at 21:43

I think I'll do the safest option

NathanL · 15 Sep 2018 at 13:05

Morning all,

I've updated to F3. All seems to work.
I've gone in and enabled XMP to Profile 1, and typed in 32.

Is that all I need to do? Then just wait and see if I blue screen at all?

Cheers

orbitalwalsh · 15 Sep 2018 at 16:44

Nathan Long said:
Morning all,

I've updated to F3. All seems to work.
I've gone in and enabled XMP to Profile 1, and typed in 32.

Is that all I need to do? Then just wait and see if I blue screen at all?

Cheers

Just have to enable XMP and save and exit. Should pull 3200hz auto