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Either way, it's probably not worth a lot, it's over 10 years old...

No it is the Deluxe, I got it wrong. The two boards look almost exactly the same

You're right, the Premium looks almost the same but the USB headers give it away

99% sure it's an ASUS P5Q Premium: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5Q_Premium/

Various reasons, mainly because I hated the G.Skill RGB suite and I already have Corsair peripherals. Friend bought the old RAM off me for the same money I spent so it wasn't exactly a bad deal. Yeah, I have done all of that. This is isn't my first build, not even close, and I honestly felt like I knew my stuff, but apart from the voltage, none of the changes are applied. It always results into restart loop and the bios resetting the values. And I mean, how on earth are they blocking SOC voltage? Never had that before. Tried a "soft" OC @ 2400 and still nothing. It probably really just is the motherboard not liking it. The fact that the Gigabyte BIOS is terrible doesn't help either. At this point I'm seriously considering swapping it out for an ASUS board... Of all my builds, it's always the Gigabyte ones that have funky problems...

Hey everyone! I'm having issues getting my Corsair Dominator RGB kit (CMT16GX4M2C3200C16) to run at its intended frequency and timings. I was previously using a G.Skill 16 GB kit (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR) which worked perfectly fine by just enabling XMP on my X470 Aorus Gaming board (with Ryzen 2700X). In CPU Z the RAM shows up as 2133 instead of 3200 and the timings are at 15-15-15-36 instead of 16-18-18-36. I have to admit that I did NOT check Gigabyte's list of compatible sticks (I now know they're not on there), but as Corsair advertises this specific kit as "for Ryzen" I was sure the worst case would be a BIOS update, considering how popular these sticks are. Well, I was wrong. After going with the latest version and then rolling back through five previous ones just to be sure, neither XMP nor EZ OC profiles worked to get the RAM to the correct speed. The system would go through a few on-off cycles and finally boot without the settings applied. In the BIOS it still says it has the desired settings selected, but when I save & exit, it goes back to looping. I then tried overclocking it manually with the help of DRAM Calculator. I went with the "safe" values because I really just want to get what I paid for. But this only lead me to my next problem: I cannot change my SOC voltage in my BIOS! Apparently Gigabyte reserved that for more expensive models... it is always set to "auto". I can change DRAM and cLDO VDDG Voltage just fine, but not SOC... Regardless of that, I still inserted all the values I got from DRAM Calculator and..... got the same "results": system goes into a restart loop before finally booting without my settings enabled. I actually had to clear CMOS once because it froze. I was so desperate, I even tried setting it up through Ryzen Master! Obviously it didn't work either. (Interestingly enough, it actually let's you set SOC voltage. Whether or not this has any effect on the MB I can't say...) So did I just mess up when I didn't check the compatibility and have to live with the slower RAM (or buy a different kit)? Or is there anything else I can try?