Ram speed stability issues.

[SpeedSensei]

Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix z590-e wifi

CPU: intel 11700k

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z 4x8GB 3600Mhz CL 16

Question: Should I go dual channel 2 sticks XMP or 4 sticks stock speeds?

[porina]

Presuming you're running into stability problems given the subject. Do you know it is stable with 2 sticks?

 

There's a lot of options to tinker with which might help. I forgot the name, but Asus have a setting to use their timings or generic ones. Are you already in gear 2 for the ram? I'd hope it would be set automatically but it is probably a requirement at that speed.

 

BTW I have a similar problem with 11700k running 4x16GB 3200. Even with gear 2 it isn't quite stable, with on average one crash a week or so. Once I set it to XMP off (2133) it has been fine. It likely would also work at standard timings at a higher speed, but I'm too lazy to set and test it. I really wish enthusiast ram manufacturers would include higher speed JEDEC profiles in their ram alongside XMP.