3070 causing XMP instability

[Nick.Rogers]

Hello Everyone,

 

I received my 3070 FE yesterday and quickly replaced my older 1080ti with it. Following this I promptly tried to boot and nothing worked, not even getting it into bios. After cycling the pc a few times the bios came up and said it had a boot issue and to return settings to default (for reference the only setting I changed in bios is to enable xmp). This let me boot and download the new nvidia drivers etc. etc. 

 

My problem is that there has been no way to reliably use/boot my pc with xmp enabled and im stuck at 2133mhz. I have updated the mobo bios and repeated the ram and 3070 just in case.

 

Specs:

B550i Aorus Pro AX

Ryzen 3600

16gb Corsair LPX Vengeance 3600mhz

RTX 3070 FE

650W PSU

1TB Intel 660p 

500GB WD Blue M.2 SSD

4TB Seagate Barracuda

Node 202

[shaz2sxy]

are you using a PCIE extension for the gpu?

 

is you are you will have to force it to PCIE3

 

the notherboard is PCIE4 and GPU isPCIE4 but if the cable is only PCIE3 then the auto function can cause issues

[boggy77]

is your ram in slots 2 and 4? try increasing SOC voltage to 1.1

[Vishera]

It's possible that the power supply is not powerful enough.

[A1200]

15 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It's possible that the power supply is not powerful enough.

I had the same thought. The OC of the memory by enabling XMP might be sending it over the edge. That's also a small case, I wonder how warm things are getting in there? Are you using the Corsair Airflow contraption?

[Nick.Rogers]

38 minutes ago, shaz2sxy said:

are you using a PCIE extension for the gpu?

 

is you are you will have to force it to PCIE3

 

the notherboard is PCIE4 and GPU isPCIE4 but if the cable is only PCIE3 then the auto function can cause issues

Wow, that seems to have fixed it. The BIOS was on auto for which PCIE generation it would try to boot. And im using the stock extender for the node 202. 

 

I changed it to gen 3 and it works perfectly, im going to work on getting a gen4 extender now. Thanks so much!

[Nick.Rogers]

And to everyone else, the ram is recently new (1~2 months old) and I used to use it with the 1080ti and a 450w psu so I doubt the wattage was a problem and timings im not sure about.

[shaz2sxy]

3 minutes ago, Nick.Rogers said:

Wow, that seems to have fixed it. The BIOS was on auto for which PCIE generation it would try to boot. And im using the stock extender for the node 202. 

 

I changed it to gen 3 and it works perfectly, im going to work on getting a gen4 extender now. Thanks so much!

Great news