01-19-2019 01:29 PM - last edited on 03-06-2024 08:54 PM by ROGBot
01-19-2019 01:38 PM
Stalkholm wrote:
TL;DR: I failed to do my due diligence and bought ram that is way too fast for my system to take advantage of, two pairs of F4-3600C15D-16GTZ, AKA 32gb of 3600CL15 Samsung B-Die on four DIMMs. If I overclock my RAM to anything above 3200CL14 Prime95 will start throwing out errors, which I count as the system being unstable. So now I'm left with the question of do I leave in all four sticks and accept a slower memory speed, or take out two sticks and accept that I wasted a gigantic amount of money?
Also, and I know this is going to sound dumb: What questions should I ask the next time I build a PC? It never even occurred to me that Ryzen wouldn't... I'm not blaming Ryzen, it's not AMD's fault that I didn't think to ask the right questions, I just didn't anticipate that it wouldn't be able to handle the rated speeds, so I didn't even think to question anything. Learn from me: Don't be a dumbass, it doesn't pay.
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01-20-2019 12:47 PM
Stalkholm wrote:
First, and most importantly: Thank you all for your feedback!
Secondly: Mixed kits are even a thing!? Mixed Samsung B-die from the same distributor with the same product number and timings is even a thing!? Goddammit. So even when I got the "right" memory I did it in the wrong way. /sigh Do you know what the most frustrating thing about attention deficit disorder is? It's not the big ****ups, it's the little ones, like setting an alarm for 8pm instead of 8am, or taking 68 North instead of 68 South, or buying two "matched" RAM kits only to find out there aren't matched at all.
(The second most frustrating thing is that I often share too much information. Sorry.)
Just for my own edification: If I want to try 3333 again, want to try to make it stable anyway, what would I want to throw more voltage at and what's the red line on those voltages? I don't want to do more harm to my poor computer than I already have.
01-23-2019 12:03 PM
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