Hello! I am a bit of a noob at Ram timing, and anyone who reads this and helps, I GREATLY appreciate it. I’m mainly looking for some X570 cl14 configurations for 2800-3200mhz on X570 Asrock and MSI motherbords. I built a PC, and will be building another one tonight. The first one that is finished is an Asrock x570 Phantom K4(gaming 4) motherboard, Ryzen 5 3600, DC 2x8gb Geil Evo Potenza 3000 mhz cl16 Micron B-Die and a wraith max (the prism from FX and 1st gen Ryzen). The second is the same but a MSI X570-A pro, and Viper Patriot 3200 cl16.
On the first rig I used Thaiphoon to import my xmp into the Ryzen calc, used the settings and got a black screen. Pulled the cmos, and set the XMP and oc’d it to 3200. Everything is running good, but I would like to tighten the timings, but I am scared to just experiment and go in blindly. And is it possible that raising the frequency without changing the timings would be bad too?
Can I just change the main timings, or do I HAVE to mess with all that other stuff as well? The weirdest and most confusing part of the process was the tRFC to me. The Ryzen calculator only had tRFC and (alt), but my motherboard UEFI had tRFC 1, 2, 3, and 4? Very confusing.
I heard tighter timings is better for Ryzen than faster clock speeds, and would really like a simple guide or copy and paste settings that would work with my Ram, cpu, and motherboard from anyone who has a similar config and cl14 working properly. Looking for 2800-3200 cl14. Thank you!
Also, side question, pbo vs all core oc? (i would also like to add that disabling OC voltage to stable voltage made my system drop 20-30c during idle, and seem to also run much faster and more stable. Right now Im just using 3900 all core clock with 1.325v, PBO disabled, C-state and “core-boost” or whatever it’s called enabled, Ryzen balanced plan. It’s been the fastest and most stable of everything I have tried, as well as the coolest.)