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Memory trouble on my B450M Steel Legend

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Topic: Memory trouble on my B450M Steel Legend
Posted By: Wyrmnax
Subject: Memory trouble on my B450M Steel Legend
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 8:05pm
So... Having trouble getting my memory OCed on my Steel Legend.

I got a G.Skill Trident kit of 16gb - 3600 MHz.

Board auto detects it as 2133MHz - thats fair, that is base.

It has a XMP profile for gskill at 3600 MHz. If I change the board to that and the save and reset, PC doesnt move from there. Fans are spinning, lights are on, but it will stay in that state forever. I left it overnight thinking that it might need time to reset something, but got nothing.

Then, when I force reboots it through the power button, it will reboot. Get fans spinning, take a couple of minutes there without giving my any kind of output. And then it will reboot itself. This next time it will give me video and actually start on windows, but it will have reset its memory profile to 2133MHz

I tried other memory speeds, thinking that maybe it is my MB that is not letting me get to 3600, but to no avail. I will get the same kind of behavior even if I set my memory to 2400 MHz. Any kind of memory speed set that is not auto at 2133MHz will give me the exact same issue. Have tried 3533, 3200, 3000, 2933, 2666, 2400.... all with the exact same result - nothing when getting out of save and continue from the bios, and PC self-resetting one time once I am forced to power it off and getting off with the auto 2133MHz profile.

What am I missing? Any ideas?



Replies:
Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 5:15am
What CPU and what RAM exactly are you using?

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Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline
Under test:
MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE


Posted By: Wyrmnax
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 7:38am
Trident Z RGB
DDR4-3600MHz CL17-18-18-38 1.35V
16GB (2x8GB)


Ryzen 5 3600


Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 3:24pm
Ok, now we know how many sticks, size and primary timing, but
with "RAM exactly" i meant the concrete product name like my RAM in my signature "F4-3200C14D-32GTZ".
So your RAM can be one of a handful i found so far...
On the G-Skill website you can query a CPU/Mainboard QVL for your RAM with this product name.

Try it with one stick in A2 to check if the RAM can run with XMP and the selected frequency.

But anyway, after selecting the XMP profile you maybe have to adjust the CL value from 17 to 18 and to increase the RAM voltage from 1.35V up to 1.40V max)

You should use the Ryzen DRAM calculator with it's howtos and docu, and the related other tools.

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Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline
Under test:
MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE


Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 4:15pm
these are b-die's tuned for intel

you have to use ryzen dram calculator to manually set them

@ray62 his kits are F4-3600C17D-16GTZR

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Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 4:32pm
@gizmic:
Probably, yes.
Or F4-3600C17D-16GTZ, F4-3600C17D-16GTZSW, F4-3600C17D-16GTZKW, ...
But should not make much difference.

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Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline
Under test:
MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE


Posted By: kschendel
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2019 at 12:51am
Have you tried a complete BIOS reset?



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