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x370 Taichi and ram

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Topic: x370 Taichi and ram
Posted By: akatagyourit
Subject: x370 Taichi and ram
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 6:25am
" rel="nofollow - Well i'm here looking for some help.

Not sure if the issue is my cpu, ram, or motherboard at this point.
I have an x370 Taichi board with ryzen 7 1700x and gskill flare x 3200mhz 2x8gb kit. F4-3200C14D-16GFX which is a supported memory module kit. I've got the system up and running with modules in a2 and b2 per book for dual channel setup. Problem is 1. It won't post at specified speeds. 2. With both modules in bios 3.20 shows 16gb in single channel, but os shows 16gb avail and only 8 usable. If I run 1 stick I can enable xmp and it boots at the advertised speed for both sticks. As soon as both sticks go in it can only boot at 2400mhz single channel and windows can't utilize it all.  So at this point any guesses i'm leaning towards bad board. If I run 1 stick I can boot into windows and work and do everything I normally would without issues. I thought it was bad ram at first so I rma'd it for a new set, but still have the same problem. Since processor is running fine with one stick I can only imagine its the board at this point. Help?



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Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 8:04am
" rel="nofollow - tried a1 and b1 ?



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3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold


Posted By: akatagyourit
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 8:05am
Tried a1 and b1 and I get the same results as a2 and b2


Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 8:15am
strange that both sets of channels would be defective

try cleaning ram sticks contacts with a pencil eraser and blow out the ram slots, preferably with can of compressed air and push them sticks down firm man


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Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 8:15am
or thinking on second thought

we have had this before with cpu and either bent pin and or thermal paste on pins

take the cpu out and check


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Posted By: akatagyourit
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 9:43am
Well......... I tore everything down, pins are straight and free of thermal paste. I cleaned the water cooler pump contact and the cpu. After setting the cpu in the socket and pins lined up I lightly pressed down when moving the lever. Reapplied Artic Silver 5 and the pump. Went ahead and put the second module in and it booted dual channel and xmp profile was able to load at 3200mhz. What in the hell.


Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 11:09am
yep bad connection on one or two of the cpu pins

but hey we got it fixed mate Thumbs Up


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Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 11:11am
" rel="nofollow - now for your next trick ..............

you want to get your rather nice ram and smashing motherboard to 3200 fast ram settings or 3333 ram ?


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Posted By: akatagyourit
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 2:28pm
I just built this rig so i'm gonna run it at stock speeds. Asrock x370 Taichi mobo, ryzen 7 1700x, 16gb of gskill flare x 3200mz, gigabyte radeon vega 56, with a wd black 512 m2 nvme drive. I will probably getting into overclocking once I see how the system performs.


Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 9:29pm
ok mate no worries

dont forget to update the boards chipset drivers directly from amd support page
(it is later version than on asrock page)


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Posted By: akatagyourit
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2017 at 12:04am
Ya I already snagged everything from amds site for the chipset and only used what I had to from asrock.


Posted By: maggzy
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2018 at 3:38am
" rel="nofollow - HI i'm doing my first ever PC build have bought this mother board the x370 tachi. I would like to know if this memeroy will work. Can anyone help me ? 
G.SKILL F4-3000C16D-16GTZR 16 GB (8 GB x 2) Trident Z R GB Series DDR4 3000 MHz PC4-24000 CL16 Dual Channel Memory Kit - Black with full length RGB LED light bar  
i'm looking for a RGB effect. just need 16gb. 3000mhz speed would be ideal. Can any one help me please. This will work surly ? 

 If not this one ? 

Corsair Vengeance RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3000MHz C15 XMP 2.0 Enthusiast RGB LED Illuminated Memory Kit - White


Or do i just get the flare above to be safe as that guy above say's it works ? 

G.SKILL F4-3200C14D-16GFX 16 GB (8 GB x 2) Flare X Series DDR4 3200 MHz PC4-25600 CL14 Dual Channel Memory Kit - Black





Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2018 at 4:08am
either the flarex or the tridentz
BUT
stay safe stick to 3200 cl14 (it has the samsung b dies )
the 3000 c16 dosnt and wont work as well at all

i would avoid the corsair ram and to be honest for the headache and risk of these rgb softwares corrupting ram id also avoid the rgb ram sticks


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