Which upgrades should I be looking for?

[nolyd3]

So my current system:

 

R5 2600

ASRock AB350 Pro4

RTX 2070 8GB

16GB - 4 DIMMS 2400

120GB Western Digital Green m.2

1TB HDD

 

Im thinking a 2x 16GB kit at 3200 or 3600 would be a decent upgrade, but also my MB has a unused NVMe m.2.

So I'm unsure of the performance gains I would get moving my boot drive to the NVMe slot with a more modest 250GB and if its totally worth it.

 

Also I would like to have a better upgrade path through AMD and I'm concerned with my B350 not supporting past Gen 3. So maybe its worth going for a B450?

 

Thank you and sorry if this wasn't the right place for this discussion I'm brand new here!

 

 

 

 

 

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, nolyd3 said:

Im thinking a 2x 16GB kit at 2133 or 2666 would be a decent upgrade,

Ryzen loves high speed memory, I didn't even know the are 1866 ddr4 memory kits but the fact that you're using is definitely crippling CPU performance. You should definitely look into something 2666 or higher.

 

5 minutes ago, nolyd3 said:

but also my MB has a unused NVMe m.2.

So I'm unsure of the performance gains I would get moving my boot drive to the NVMe slot with a more modest 250GB and if its totally worth it.

Nvme doesn't make an impact on a gaming PC's usage so stick with your current SSD

[nolyd3]

5 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Ryzen loves high speed memory, I didn't even know the are 1866 ddr4 memory kits but the fact that you're using is definitely crippling CPU performance. You should definitely look into something 2666 or higher.

Yeah I'm not quite sure why the speeds are low. My ram model is F4-2666c15-4GVK

Which is normally a 2x4 8GB 2666 kit. But for some reason enabling SMP to 2133 well crash my system so I was forced to turn it off. Not sure if this was because I was filling all 4 DIMMS for 16GB. Which had me thinking I should go for a 2x8GB kit instead.

[Legend1234-jack]

That is really slow ram for ddr 4

[King_Jahh]

4 minutes ago, nolyd3 said:

Yeah I'm not quite sure why the speeds are low. My ram model is F4-2666c15-4GVK

Which is normally a 2x4 8GB 2666 kit. But for some reason enabling SMP to 2133 well crash my system so I was forced to turn it off. Not sure if this was because I was filling all 4 DIMMS for 16GB. Which had me thinking I should go for a 2x8GB kit instead.

Have your updates your BIOS since getting the board? Memory speeds was very buggy on first release

[191x7]

Latest bios: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350 Pro4/#BIOS   (make sure to use the propper path for the upgrade, do not skip a version that is necessary!)

Once you have the latest, test XMP once again.

 

Which CPU cooler do you use? Which PSU?

[nolyd3]

10 minutes ago, King_Jahh said:

Have your updates your BIOS since getting the board? Memory speeds was very buggy on first release

So last time I tried to enable XMP was when I updated to 1809 and it actually was showing my RAM speed at 900 something which I thought was totally weird. I haven't tried recently on 1903 so maybe Windows was having an issue. I will try to set XMP to 2133 as this is the fastest I can go on SR/4 DIMMS I believe. 

Would Memtest64 be sufficient to test this setting as well? Thanks for the reply. 

Also I am on the 5.80 BIOS which is the latest ASRock recommends for Pinnacle Ridge.

[nolyd3]

3 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Latest bios: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350 Pro4/#BIOS   (make sure to use the propper path for the upgrade, do not skip a version that is necessary!)

Once you have the latest, test XMP once again.

 

Which CPU cooler do you use? Which PSU?

Just using the Stock AMD cooler, and I have a Seasonic 550w Bronze.

I am on the latest BIOS 5.80 for Pinnacle Ridge, however I haven't tested XMP since then which I will do ty!

[191x7]

DDR4 2666 should show as 1333 in many programs. DDR stands for Double Data Rate.

 

Is it possible that you're running your RAM at 3732 (1866)?

[nolyd3]

1 hour ago, 191x7 said:

DDR4 2666 should show as 1333 in many programs. DDR stands for Double Data Rate.

 

Is it possible that you're running your RAM at 3732 (1866)?

When I updated to Windows 1803, task manager reported my ram speed as 931. Which Im assuming is what you mentioned above and was really running at 1866. I updated my BIOS and the task manager was reading correct at 1833. But I also thought this was low, and when i tried enabling XMP to 2666 which crashed my system because that speed isn't supported with 4 DIMMS on my MB. 

I just recently changed it to XMP 2133 and have had no issues so far and ran a few MemTests and all seemed well. My MB says I can do up to 2400 so I might try that next. However what would be the performance jump from 4x4 16GB @ 2400 vs 2x8 16GB @ 3200 I guess is the real question now.

 

EDIT: Added CPU-Z shot of Memory, I'm seeing max bandwidth at 2132, so I'm assuming 2133 is the max I can go atm?

[191x7]

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