Asrock ab350m pro4 ram quastion

i use tridentz

one thing to note
the set you quoted dosnt seem to use the *magical* b dies (eg the samsung ic chips on the ram)

the 3200 cl14 and 3200 cl15 tridentz do

it does however seem strange that you cant get the corsiar ram above 2133 though, although there are not great by any means they should by now be able to get at least 2666 or 2933 from

may i ask are you running the later bios on your board
and also is the option in bios of 'am4 boot training' set to 'auto'

yes but the specific ram kit you quote is
double sided sticks (not the best idea for ryzen)
and has either samsung E dies or can possibly have hynix dies

im not saying for sure it wont run at 2993 (in fact theres a good chance this ram and ryzen will run at 3200   esp. if its the samsung dies)

what im saying is all ryzen systems seem to much prefer
running samsung b dies AND single sided chips/sticks (eg the little memory chips on each ram stick are only mounted on one side of the stick)

this basically makes it easier work  for the ryzen cpu to talk to them and 'get along nicely'

its the same for any cpu intel/amd
two stick single sided is best
four sticks of double sided would be worst

anyway im more concerned that two different kits of ram (even corsair) wouldnt allow anything over 2133mhz with such a late bios version on your board

datonyb wrote: one thing you havnt mentioned is the cpu overclocked or running stock ?

it is stock

datonyb wrote: well thats not the problem either then are the ram sticks inserted into slot a2 and slot b2 ? eg the second and fourth slots AWAY from the cpu ? are they both pushed very very firmly down into the slots (these am4 ram slots require far more pressure than were used to )  look closely at the copper tabs are thjey evenly inserted into the socket or does one side stick up a bit more out of socket

everything was inserted fine. also tried the a1 b1 slot and got the same result with the 3000mhz ram. the 3200mhz would not post above 2133mhz but atleast it would always post at 2133mhz :D i will trie the gskill ram that i posted in the first post and they are in the qvl of the motherboard. if they too make problems just gonna refund the motherboard

datonyb wrote: when you go to fit them please perform a full cmos clear before e.g. disconnect power from the wall and remove the little battery on motherboard for at least 5 mins this will remove any traces of the old rams bad performance etc from the bios be aware the first boot after this may well take 1-2 mins before it looks like it will even start this is normal ,just leave it to do its thing and boot

will do that. quastion is if those g skill will also work.. they are in the qvl but 3200mhz ram goes only  2933....