Lil-Dabbie

While I do not know, I just recently upgraded CPU and I also got a Q light for RAM. I needed to update BIOS and then also pull CMOS to clear after updating BIOS.

Just a quick tip for those who may run into the same issue as I did. I recently upgraded to a Ryzen 5 5600x3d but after installing my RAM I found that one channel (two slots) wouldn't work and would cause the motherboard to light up DRAM issue or GPU issue. After flashing the BIOS to the most up to date version it still didn't work and would only work with two of the slots filled. In order to get around this I pulled out the CMOS battery after flashing the BIOS and it seemed to fix everything and now all slots can be populated so make sure to pull the CMOS if you flash the BIOS and still can't get all RAM sticks working. This may have just been a me situation but I wanted to put it out there in case anyone else runs into the issue. Thanks!

Also it seems like you do take off the plastic pieces for at least the hyper 212. Thanks everyone.

I bought this new about a year or two ago, and I originally put it onto my i7 9700k but I am now switching to and AMD cpu (AM4) platform so I do have the other metal brackets if that is what you’re referring to.

I’m assuming the plastic is only for AMD stock coolers and I take them off for non stock but I truly don’t know.

Mine only came with warranty info so I will look it up.

So let’s say I have this cooler (hyper 212 black edition)

These plastic pieces with screws in them are on the motherboard in place where the heatsink should be screwed in. Instructions say to put it in and then put heatsink on, and it already came screwed in but I was to make sure as plastic right next to a hot cpu doesn’t sound ideal or right.

Awesome, thank you again for all of your help!

Is there a way to see what RAM a CPU is capable of running? For instance, I know it runs DDR4 and can't run DDR5 but can it run 3600MHz the same as 2133MHz? Like is there RAM that is too fast for a 9700k?

Thanks to everyone who responded and gave solutions, and a big thank you to @YoungBlade for helping me overclock my RAM! While it may not be a complete fix (upgrading RAM to be the same frequency and faster than 2666MHz) it definitely seemed to help overall and I learned something new.

Okay, I will have to give those a try. I just went into a deathmatch in CS:GO to see how it looks now and it felt somewhat better. The graph also shows an improvement I would say. Still some hitching but it definitely became better overall.

I have restarted after that and no blue screen so far. Is there any quick way to test stability of memory?

So I went to Ai tweaker and set XMP but it only allows for XMP to be set for the 2800MHz sticks. So even if I change the frequency to 2666MHz won’t that have everything else wrong?

Also this is the motherboard in case you still wanted to see it.