Some RAM questions...

16thompn · September 15, 2020

G'day

I have recently (about 4 months ago) installed a 64GB kit of RAM into my computer (upgrading from 32GB) and this has been causing me all sorts of problems. I have not been able to overclock the RAM and it appears to be crashing constantly if my CPU and/or RAM usage is too high (often while processing photos and videos in lightroom/premiere). I'll attach some screenshots of my exact Motherboard, RAM and CPU. It worked well and overclocked to 3200Mhz when i had the previous kit, so not sure what might be the problem here other than faulty RAM? Is there any way to check this? It's not specifically listed in the compatible RAM kits for the motherboard however no 64GB kits were and I thought if my previous Trident Z kit worked, this one would too.

Cheers for any advice or help!

Nick

Samfisher · September 15, 2020

Official support for the 2950x ends at 2933MHz. Although most 2950's can probably run 3200 with no issue, it's not a guarantee. Only 2933 and below are guaranteed. This is bumped up to 3200 on the 3000 series of CPUs.

Moonzy · September 15, 2020

Might have to drop frequency if you went from single rank to dual rank

16thompn · September 27, 2020

On 9/15/2020 at 4:57 PM, Samfisher said:

Official support for the 2950x ends at 2933MHz. Although most 2950's can probably run 3200 with no issue, it's not a guarantee. Only 2933 and below are guaranteed. This is bumped up to 3200 on the 3000 series of CPUs.

Thanks for the advice and sorry for the long response. Managed to get the RAM working at 2933mhz after some tinkering and would be nice to get it up a little faster. I'll keep having a play and see what ends up happening. Just very time consuming (but I guess that's overclocking for you!).

Cheers
Nick