RAM on AMD

[Robskee_013]

A buddy of mine decided to upgrade his RAM

 

He bought Corsair DDR4 Dominator Platinum, to replace his G.Skill DDR4 Aegis.

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But as we found out the hard way, AMD Ryzen doesn't go higher than 2133Mhz on the RAM.
So now he's left with a hard lock on his RAM speed, perhaps he could Frankenstein these ram sticks onto the same board to at least let him get a boost on his capacity.

 

So is it at all possible to combine 2 different brands and 2 different capacity sizes without too much of a penalty, still having a overall positive outcome ? 

(Edit: The capacity is the same on the modules, just had the wrong link sent to me)

 

Lemme know guys 

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Robskee_013 said:

But as we found out the hard way, AMD Ryzen doesn't go higher than 2133Mhz on the RAM.

Sure, they do.

[Tristerin]

Sounds like an OE.  I run well outside of Ryzen spec stable, so running in spec is expected and should be or your have an issue with your hardware.  What motherboard does he have?  What CPU?  Both have unique memory controllers with unique thresholds.

[Lurick]

4 minutes ago, Robskee_013 said:

But as we found out the hard way, AMD Ryzen doesn't go higher than 2133Mhz on the RAM

My 3800MHz RAM would disagree

What board does your friend have?

[Robskee_013]

1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

Sure, they do.

We read online that it's because of his AMD ryzen cpu that he couldn't get to his target speed of 3200 mhz

[Robskee_013]

Just now, Lurick said:

My 3800MHz RAM would disagree

What board does your friend have?

He has a MSI B350 Tomahawk 
We found that that board does support to 3200Mhz

[Lurick]

Just now, Robskee_013 said:

He has a MSI B350 Tomahawk 
We found that that board does support to 3200Mhz

I assume you've tried to enable DOCP in BIOS?

[Robskee_013]

Just now, Lurick said:

I assume you've tried to enable DOCP in BIOS?

He did try to enable XMP and the MSI Memmory Try It ! 

 

To no avail 
CMD still reported 2133Mhz

 

 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, Robskee_013 said:

He did try to enable XMP and the MSI Memmory Try It ! 

 

To no avail 
CMD still reported 2133Mhz

I noticed that the BIOS version is from 2017, I would first suggest trying to update the BIOS version to the latest available for that board. There might be a bug on that version.

[Robskee_013]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

I noticed that the BIOS version is from 2017, I would first suggest trying to update the BIOS version to the latest available for that board. There might be a bug on that version.

We'll try that

 

Get back to ya once we updated

[Lurick]

34 minutes ago, Robskee_013 said:

We'll try that

 

Get back to ya once we updated

Sounds good

[GoldenLag]

39 minutes ago, Robskee_013 said:

He did try to enable XMP and the MSI Memmory Try It ! 

 

To no avail 
CMD still reported 2133Mhz

 

 

 

Ryzen first gen, IMC on that might stop at anything between 2800mhz to 3200mhz. suggest making your way up that ladde to see where the IMC stops. 

[Robskee_013]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

Sounds good

Thanks a lot mate

 

It was just the old bios, turns out 2017 wasnt a good year for 3200mhz ram

[Robskee_013]

Boom

 

There she is

[Lurick]

12 minutes ago, Robskee_013 said:

Thanks a lot mate

 

It was just the old bios, turns out 2017 wasnt a good year for 3200mhz ram

Awesome! Glad to hear it's all working now

[beersykins]

4 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

Ryzen first gen, IMC on that might stop at anything between 2800mhz to 3200mhz. suggest making your way up that ladde to see where the IMC stops. 

I also came here to say this.  The new BIOS revisions help a lot for the AGESA profile updates, but also the IMC on the original Ryzen chips wasn't as good.  Had a similar experience with the 1700 that's currently in mah wife's PC.

[nick name]

5 hours ago, Lurick said:

My 3800MHz RAM would disagree

What board does your friend have?

My 4400MHz runs would concur with you.