crosshair Vi hero OC tips and m.2 boot drive settings

[vogner16]

Hey guys . long time member first time poster. bought a crosshair V formula in 2012 decided to upgrade again.

I had a great time OCing my crosshair V to 1866 ram and even 1900 with a bit of bus clock boosting to push 4 dims and 16gb along with a 4.8 ghz OC to the 8350 was really an amazing thing and sold me on asus for heavy OC boards.

this crosshair VI has not been as good to me.

I am able to push 4.0 easy from my 1800x and haven't tried higher to be honest but I'm very dispointed by the ram.

I know only 2400 ram is officially supported in dual rank but with all the voltage I pushed at these things it makes no sense why I cant get even 2666 to post.

I bought a 2x8 gskill 3200 MHz 16CL kit that was on sale and the most ive gotten to post is 2400 MHz CL 15. and no matter how high I pop the voltage (in safe limits) it wont go higher.

any tips? do I just need to return this ram to get the flare x stuff that ive read does work? is it worth the $185 on newegg when I paid $120 for what I have? (assuming a bios update allows me to OC above 2400 soon).

second is the m.2. I could not get windows to load onto my Samsung 960 evo no matter what I did. had to load off of my old crosshair V ssd and then clone to the new M.2 just to make it boot. I wanted a clean install and it WONT work at all.

regardless its running on the m.2 now but why wouldn't windows install from the first time?

I have Compatability settings pushed to the uefi or legacy and then the codes below that setting are all off. idk what there for. I have windows set to uefi but also tried the "other OS" setting. idk why it didn't work. spent 3 hours changing settings and trying it but only the clone worked.

last point rest in peace my wallet.

Cheers!

[StarfireX]

Are you base clocked OCed at all? *I loose my 850 evo m.2 if I touch the base clock, unfortunately to get my ram to 3200 I have to base clock so I put the m.2 in a sata adaptor and it works fine.

[danjw]

StarfireX wrote:
Are you base clocked OCed at all? *I loose my 850 evo m.2 if I touch the base clock, unfortunately to get my ram to 3200 I have to base clock so I put the m.2 in a sata adaptor and it works fine.

The 960 Evo is a PCIe M.2 drive, so that won't work.

[vogner16]

danjw wrote:
The 960 Evo is a PCIe M.2 drive, so that won't work.

I have never heard that ram OC wont work if your booting from a m.2 drive and doubt that is the issue here.

plus I'm not going to put my 960 into sata mode and sacrifice the performance pcie mode gives it. id rather have that than a ram OC

[danjw]

vogner16 wrote:
I have never heard that ram OC wont work if your booting from a m.2 drive and doubt that is the issue here.

plus I'm not going to put my 960 into sata mode and sacrifice the performance pcie mode gives it. id rather have that than a ram OC

I was responding to his suggestion of moving it to a SATA port. Right now the Ryzen platform is having issues with memory in a number of odd ways.

From what I have read, AMD intends to release a major BIOS update in in May, that is supposed to improve memory support and add more stability.

[vogner16]

StarfireX wrote:
Are you base clocked OCed at all? *I loose my 850 evo m.2 if I touch the base clock, unfortunately to get my ram to 3200 I have to base clock so I put the m.2 in a sata adaptor and it works fine.

as an update to my OC testing. at first I didn't change my cpu clocks at all. ram wouldn't go to 3200 spec period. tried docp mode. nothing. tried manual voltages and manual timings. nothing.

next I tried 3000 mhz. nothing. then 2666 and still nothing.

put it to 2400 and it boots on stock voltage 1.15V and no ram OC options boosted. timings at 15,15,15,36. (the 3200 timings are (16,18,18,38))

after I gave up on that I moved to some CPU OC. first just clicked TPM 2 and it worked. 3.9 easy.

then I put mult to 40 and bam 4.0 easy. I put up the voltage settings like over current and that crap up to 120% etc... runs stable at 4 no prob.

haven't even tried 4.1 or 4.2 but for how easy 4.0 was I bet it can do it.

just frustrated with the ram.

[skline00]

I had the same ram and ended up paying for the Gskill FlareX DDR4-3200 CL14 ram. It works PERFECT on this mb with the BIOS 1002.

Simply go ionto BIOS, enable D.O.C.P. standard. Save and reboot. Goes into 3200 speed at CL14-14-14-34 1.35v

[vogner16]

skline00 wrote:
I had the same ram and ended up paying for the Gskill FlareX DDR4-3200 CL14 ram. It works PERFECT on this mb with the BIOS 1002.

Simply go ionto BIOS, enable D.O.C.P. standard. Save and reboot. Goes into 3200 speed at CL14-14-14-34 1.35v

If they do release a bios update in a month then spending $122 for my kit was a better deal than $184 for the flare x. I just have a hard time spending so much more if I know a simple software patch is all that's holding me back.