Problems after CPU change

Sat1600 · July 11, 2019

System specs

Msi Z170A pro mate

XFX rx 580 8gb

Corsair TX550m

Patriot - Signature Line 16GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2133

I had an I5 6500(non-k). I had the Ram set to 14-15-15-40 @1.25v running stable at 2533mhz. Been like this for a couple of years.

I was gifted an I7 6700(non-k). I swapped it in and started having problems with games. Everything would crash. Usually in a few minutes. AMD software would reset itself. At first I thought I knocked something loose I reseated the graphics card. tried DDU and reinstall software nothing worked. I even tried a different RX 580.

I finally did what I should have done from the beginning I pulled the cmos battery. Restarted, and now everything seems to work.

Here's the question. The only thing that I ever changed in the bios was the ram. I want to retry overclocking the ram. Could that be the problem though? The I7 came from a system that I helped diagnose. It had a stick of ram that went bad. (It was a Dell, no changes in ram settings) could this CPU have issues with ram? I don't want to kill my ram.

SpookyCitrus · July 11, 2019

Unlikely, whenever you swap a CPU or any big ticket components a bios update/reset is usually needed and ram overclocking is affected by the CPU so changing that could of just messed up the overclock.

Sat1600 · July 11, 2019

9 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Unlikely, whenever you swap a CPU or any big ticket components a bios update/reset is usually needed and ram overclocking is affected by the CPU so changing that could of just messed up the overclock.

Ok thanks.