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Ah, my bad, I thought you were running two of them

Picture of your 'Disk Management'?

I could vomit blood since I have to repeat, in Powerpoint mode: I'm searching for JEDEC spec 2.933. I'm not running XMP, because 3 times already failed, leading to a failed RAM. 2 of system known to have XMP memory, but didn't run at XMP profile HAS ZERO, 0, NULL, issue(s). How is it a board problem when I switch out to other RAM (including a kit of unsupported XMP, which is not even on the Mem QVL) it ran fine (the one not on QVL ran on XMP few few days, since I had it on a loan)? Plus, the motherboard contains no logic for the RAM, only traces between the CPU-MC to the RAM slots. Why do you NOT ASSUMED that I didn't test those faulty sticks on another known working motherboard? We aren't even talking about Skylake/Kaby Lake platform that I'm running, I'm running an i9-10850K, which is a Comet Lake platform. The only reason you don't face any issues because you upgrade too quickly, and I don't.

Doesn't mean it's on the spec sheet, doesn't mean it's stable on that. You think 2.8, 3, and 3.2 exist back when Skylake launched?

Bruh, 6700K kit back then were up to 2.666 on XMP. Late of 7700K introduced 3 GHz XMP, even back then, it was a waste of money to buy one. My cousin didn't buy 7700K pretty late, it was early, since he decided to splurge on upgrading his PC. Plus, you assumed that most board supported 3 GHz+ XMP, which wasn't. In fact, my MSI Z170 didn't support it, only it's Z270 board. Your history is incorrect. I beg to differ. I had two kits failed due to XMP, and fails to POST with stock. I cannot investigate this much, since I no longer own that kit. That was pretty much Coffee Lake era of memory kit.

It's still running at 1.35V. My Crucial Ballistix for my 10850K is 2.666 base, I highly doubt they sell 2.933. Exception of the Z77, which was running an i5. The rest is running 6700K, my cousin's PC ran on 7700K. This is all assuming I can get a POST, and it's pretty stupid if 1.37 V works, but then, few months down the road, it fails, and i have to up to 1.39 V. It's also stupid when if BIOS update, or reset, I have to figure everything out again, not worth my time to tweak. Plus, it's unlike OCing your refresh rate at a certain resolution. No, based on my experience, it's preferred to run it at stock, and attempt to find the highest rated. Yeah, Kingston Value props up from my search but, most of them are discontinued or outside from my country. . .

Preface My 3 original configuration, Z77, Z170 and Z270, XMP fails after 2-3 years, requiring me to go JEDEC profile. I had a second PC (Z170), and re-build my cousin's PC (Z270), while using XMP capable RAM kit, I didn't opt for it, instead of ran JEDEC profile. Literally, zero issues, no BSOD, nor a stick of RAM outright fails. So XMP doesn't work for me at all. FYI JEDEC profile: It runs at that speed, timing and latency at 1.2V. XMP profile: It runs at that speed, timing and latency at 1.35V. Switch to MHz to GHz. No, most RAM uses the XMP speed on their spec sheet. Crucial, you're literally the first party, and I have no idea why doesn't list the base speed. https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/cp2k32g4dfra32a Corsair is completely out of the list, most of their kit is the original JEDEC 2.133 GHz. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/memory/cmw64gx4m2e3200c16/vengeancea-rgb-pro-64gb-2-x-32gb-ddr4-dram-3200mhz-c16-memory-kit-a-black-cmw64gx4m2e3200c16#tab-techspecs https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/memory/cmk64gx4m2d3000c16/vengeancea-lpx-64gb-2-x-32gb-ddr4-dram-3000mhz-c16-memory-kit-black-cmk64gx4m2d3000c16#tab-techspecs Nope, time again has proven Intel with XMP barely do any performance improvement, it's like 5%, unless it's really, really, really, memory speed and latency sensitive. Since, the MC is literally alongside the core itself, and not separated. The Topic So I'm planning to upgrade my second PC from 2x8GB to either 2x16GB or 2x32GB, because my sibling's activity nearly used 13 out of 16GB, running Firefox, Bluestack, and another Gacha games. I've decided to opt and find the highest rated speed that the 10700K could support: 2.933 GHz. Heck, even my 10850K support that speed, so there's literally ZERO issue, I don't even have 10th Core i3 or i5, which doesn't support 2.933 natively. I thought it's pretty late and 'EoL' for DDR4, so maybe 2.933 sticks are more readily available---but nope. Even when Coffee Lake/ Refresh was a thing, I thought higher JEDEC would appear right around the corner, but nope. I really don't mind those more pedestrian RAM and just buy some heat spreader. Yes, I've seen 2.933 DDR4 RAM, but they are ECC.

It's probably the board. Even if the paste is dried to a crust, it will still be able to post, boot to Windows with poor thermals.

I mean, yes, I did worked around when I paired with the wrong pair of memory, and in the BIOS (even if it's an Acer pre-built for the i3-530), I simply set the memory clock down, removed the 'slow' stick and it boots fine. OK, fair enough. I bought those DDR4 RAM from 'used' for dirt chip in 2018, however, doesn't look like used, since the seller claimed they have spare, and are selling off excess inventory. Plus, it was no name brand. Maybe that kit doesn't have lower JEDEC profile. Then again, since 9th gen, pretty much everything is thrown out of the whack, and those limitations that I faced before were removed or something else. I decided to play safe with the answers regarding RAM compatibility. That I could attest, 10850K with 4x32GB RAM works fine, no issues.

OK fair enough. I thought you are confused by the chipset being tied to the RAM speed, which isn't. Unfortunately, OP has B460, so buying high JEDEC RAM will instantly fail to post. I tried using 1.333 DDR3 JEDEC on a i3-530 (max is 1.066), it fails to post. I tried using 2.4 DDR4 JEDEC on i7-6700K (max is 2.133), it fails to post. I mean, Linus had this issue when he scored those Xeon Plats and using higher speed, JEDEC, ECC memory, it fails to post until he swapped for 2.133 speeds.

You don't need an expensive $1K+ UPS, get a decent $300 UPS. You know what's the long term fix? Get an electrician and diagnose your house.

Actually, the max speed it could go is via the processor support, i5 can go up to 2.666 GHz, while i7 and i9 can go up to 2.933. I mean, OP sticks are already running at JEDEC specs. Technically, all XMP kit has JEDEC profile for fallback.

I'm pretty sure you can remove the mobo heatsink and just run like that. There's literally reviews of the 990 Pro with heatsink, or even other SSD with heatsink pre-attached, you must already know that it's NOT recommended to remove them, and you still bought them. No, there's little impact. Rather than running off the CPU PCIE lanes, it's running off chipset PCIE lanes, and there will be latency.

No, you probably have slow HDD (assuming that HDD is storing your games). Happened to me for Skyrim, though after switching to SATA SSD, that problem goes away. Other notes: Dump that dual 6600 XT for a single 4060. Multi-GPU is pretty much dead for games (not sure about other stuff). Pretty sure you can get 2x8GB DDR4, even the slowest one, used for cheap. I wouldn't recommend buying new DDR4, since most of them are catered for Coffee Lake and newer (their JEDEC based is 2.4 or 2.666 GHz). Skylake pretty much support 2.133 GHz. AFAIK, Corsair is the only one that their DDR4 JEDEC base is 2.133 GHz.

What? Buys a SSD with heatsink and complains that it doesn't fit when there's a provided heatsink by the motherboard? If I knew the my mobo has built-in heatsink for the M.2, I would just bought 990 Pro without the heatsink.