Memory not overclocking

[brock09973]

CPU-Ryzen 2700x

Motherboard-ASUS Prime x570-p

Ram-Corsair Vengence RGB Pro 4x8gb 3600mgh

 

Hello, I am very new to pc’s and asking for help I just built my first one with some of the specs listed above and I’m having trouble running the 4x8GB sticks at 3600 MHz the board is rated to run that, if I run dual channel at 16 gigs I can overclock it to 3600 MHz just fine but is soon as I put the other two in it’ll boot up in the safe mode, Is my CPU not be beefy enough to run all that memory, Would it be better to run dual channel 16 gigs at 3600 MHz or quad channel 32 gigs at 2133 MHz

 

[Jurrunio]

Zen+ CPUs dont overclock memory well, you need a newer architecture of Zen CPU to do 4 sticks 3600MHz

[brock09973]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Zen+ CPUs dont overclock memory well, you need a newer architecture of Zen CPU to do 4 sticks 3600MHz

would a Ryzen 7 3700 X work or do you need something even better than that

[brock09973]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Zen+ CPUs dont overclock memory well, you need a newer architecture of Zen CPU to do 4 sticks 3600MHz

if the 3700 X won’t work what would and is it better to run 4x8gb 2133hz or 2x16 3600mgh

[Haro]

running 4 sticks at 3600 on zen +'s imc is quite a bit of pressure. 

set the soc to 1.15 and dram to 1.35 and go for 2933, check stability and go for 3000 and then 3200. 

[brock09973]

3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

running 4 sticks at 3600 on zen +'s imc is quite a bit of pressure. 

set the soc to 1.15 and dram to 1.35 and go for 2933, check stability and go for 3000 and then 3200. 

what CPU would I need to run all the memory and what’s better 2x8 3600 or 4x8 2133

[Haro]

10 hours ago, brock09973 said:

and what’s better 2x8 3600 or 4x8 2133

I mean performance wise, assuming your workload does not need more than 16 gigs, technically 2x8 will perform better, buy if you need 32 gigs, capacity will be more important. 

as i said though..

10 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

set the soc to 1.15 and dram to 1.35 and go for 2933, check stability and go for 3000 and then 3200. 

^.

[Jurrunio]

16 minutes ago, brock09973 said:

would a Ryzen 7 3700 X work or do you need something even better than that

all Zen 2 CPUs would do that, though moving to 3700x or above make more sense when you have a 2700X

 

13 minutes ago, brock09973 said:

if the 3700 X won’t work what would and is it better to run 4x8gb 2133hz or 2x16 3600mgh

You can still try higher frequencies on 4x8gb, like 3200MHz

[SkilledRebuilds]

16 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

running 4 sticks at 3600 on zen +'s imc is quite a bit of pressure. 

set the soc to 1.15 and dram to 1.35 and go for 2933, check stability and go for 3000 and then 3200. 

^

[brock09973]

I got it running at 4 x 8 at 3200 MHz! thanks everyone for the help

[brock09973]

21 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

I mean performance wise, assuming your workload does not need more than 16 gigs, technically 2x8 will perform better, buy if you need 32 gigs, capacity will be more important. 

as i said though..

^.

another question by chance do you know if I put my base clock on my CPU to 4000 will it still fluctuate and give me more during games and less during no workload

[Haro]

22 minutes ago, brock09973 said:

another question

I mean you can just overclock the cpu and let it idle at lower frequency to save power. 

Not sure why you'd do something like this. 

Edited September 15, 2020 by TofuHaroto