Memory OC question

[Fruguy101]

So I have a Ryzen 5 1600AF, Asus B450M-A/CSM motherboard, and Corsaid Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3600Mhz RAM. 

Every time I try to OC the RAM to get the 3600 speed, the pc won't boot. I've just been running it at stock speeds since I built it earlier this year. 

 

What can I do to try to get more out of the RAM besides stock speeds?

I'm a n00b at OC'ing hardware. Any help would be appreciated. TIA

[Helpful Tech Witch]

are you using xpm prophiles or manual overclocking?

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, Fruguy101 said:

What can I do to try to get more out of the RAM besides stock speeds?

Reducing the latency. 

 

First gen Ryzen's memory controller is the worst of the bunch, don't expect high speed memory to be very easy and you'll likely need to tune the memory controller frequency.

 

Something like DDR4 3000 at CAS 14 would offer a good level of performance.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

First gen Ryzen's memory controller is the worst of the bunch

It the 1600af first gen? I though it was 2nd gen stuff under the hood, or it that just the silicon?

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

It the 1600af first gen? I though it was 2nd gen stuff under the hood, or it that just the silicon?

Ah yes it is the same second gen. Though, the capabilities of Zen to Zen + was basically "3000MHz is achievable" to "3200 is achievable" so the improvement was somewhat small.

[Fruguy101]

So should I just try 3000 or 3200 and see if that works?

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Fruguy101 said:

So should I just try 3000 or 3200 and see if that works?

Sure, that would be the easy way out.

[Fruguy101]

Thanks for the responses. It's not a super important thing for me, I was just wondering and I usually run things stock whenever I build a pc.