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Topic: Getting more out of my RAM

Posted By: outofrange
Subject: Getting more out of my RAM
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 11:12am

" rel="nofollow - Hi all so I recently built my first PC using an Asrock x370 Killer sli/ac and a ryzen 5 1600. The ram I chose was 2 sticks of Team Dark 8GB DDR4-3000. The stats for the mother board states that it supports DDR4 2933+(OC). Right now the ram is running at 2133Mhz. My question is how to I get this RAM to use its max potential? Thanks!

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Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 1:52pm

" rel="nofollow - Have you set the BIOS to set them up using their XMP Profile?

Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 1:53pm

sh*t! Hey neighbor. I'm in AJ.

Posted By: PetrolHead
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 4:47pm

The 2933+(OC) means that it is possible to have the memory run at speeds over 2933MHz and that this will require overclocking. Now, overclocking results are never guaranteed, so this isn't really a promise that you will go beyond 2933MHz with any set of memory modules you might buy. It only means that the motherboard allows you to try and reach those speeds. Reaching them will depend on your CPU, on the memory modules, on the motherboard and on BIOS settings.

The bad news here is that there are no 8GB DDR4-3000 memory modules from Team listed in the motherboard's memory QVL list, which means that ASRock makes absolutely no promises that the memory works at all. It is not impossible to overclock memory that is not officially supported, but it's even more of a lottery than with memory that is supported. If you are unlucky, that 2133MHz is the maximum potential that memory will achieve with your motherboard and CPU.

Furthermore, the "3000" in DDR4-3000 denotes the speed for Intel XMP profile. It doesn't mean that the RAM will work at 3000MHz on AMD hardware. You can try activating the XMP profile in the BIOS as wardog suggested, but you may still need to lower the speed manually after activating the profile. According to the QVL, the 4GB version of Team DDR4-3000 memory has been able to achieve 2933MHz, so you might want to start with that. If you want to play it safe, take it a step at a time from 2133MHz upwards (2400MHz, 2667MHz, 2933MHz...).

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Posted By: Jm62383
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2018 at 4:13am

The team dark should run at the 2933 xmp. I personally own a team dark pro 3000 kit that is sitting on my desk because I picked up a tridentz 3600 kit. It ran at the rated 14-14-14-31@2933 right out of the box. You just need to load the appropriate XMP setting on the oc tweaker page of your bios. Of course Im using an AB350 K4 gaming board which is different than yours but it still "should" work.