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I went to overclock my ram and ended up replacing my video card instead - A short illustrated story of loss and redemption.

HardwareBob

So I was thinking that I should see if I can overclock my RAM, so I tried some options in the bios (turning the timing down by only a single cycle) - none of which worked. 
I tried the MSI 'Try It' memory speed entry - The entry I selected was the current speed of the ram, so I thought it would be fine.

Black screen, no boot.

Ok - where is my CMOS reset pin. oh! Conveniently behind my hardline watercooled video card. Pull the case cover off, shove a screwdriver in there, push the power button, CMOS reset! Awkward, but it should work now!

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Nope. LED status on the motherboard indicates a problem with the GPU. Wait... gen4 PCI-e is the default, my 3070 is gen4 pci-e, but my riser is only gen3. It seems it's trying to use gen4, and .... failing.

Ok - I don't really want to drain the water cooling loop, so what can I do. I'll try plugging the riser in to the second 16x slot. After much fiddling and a few squished fingers, I got it in the second slot.

 

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Still doesn't work.

Ok... I need to either plug in a different card, or mount this one directly in the slot.

Wait a minute, When I was planning to buy this card, I bought a x1 to x16 pci-e extender, as I was planning to use my 1660 super at the same time, but ended up selling the card instead. About 15 minutes later I find the extender.

I've also got an old 5870 that I was throwing out as e-waste that hard locks when you try to use it in any real sense - but works fine for booting.

Ok great! Plug it in - oop, it doesn't fit. Ok, let's undo the vertical GPU bracket to give me a smidge more room, put the pci-e plug in first, then plug the "usb" into that.

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Ok - now I need extra power - oh, no spare power plugs, so into the parts bin for another sata power cable. That cable JUST reaches around (kek) the case to the riser. Swap over the PCI-E power, and the hdmi plug and we should be good.

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 push the button and:

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 voila! Crisis averted.

 

Now it's all back to normal

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My Corsair Vengeance RGB 3600 CL18 will not overclock in my X570 a single bit. Oh well. Perhaps at some point I'll get some faster ram. Maybe in a 4 stick kit, for maximum RGB.....

 

 

My only regret through all of this, is not curing my boneitis.

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  • 1 month later...

Yeah its really risky to overclock ,

 I had tried it as an amature and resulted in a failure,

but now I know as long as you stay below 1.5V you're absolutely safe.

The thing that will happen is that if the settings are too low for the memory to handle,

programs will behave unpredictably, or the system won't boot, or windows will crash, etc.

This is temporary, and the solution is to loosen the timings.

 

btw beautiful cabinet bro🤩

 

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Most likely Samsung C Die,

 

DRAM Frequency: 3800
FCLK Frequency: 1900
DRAM Voltage: 1.37V
tCL: 17
trCDRD: 21
tRCDWR: 8
tRP: 21

tRAS: 42
tRC: 66

tFAW: 30
tRFC: 600
Gear Down Mode: Disabled
Command Rate: Auto

 

if not 3733MHZ 1866MHZ FCLK

 

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