Is this a normal RAM behavior?
20 minutes ago, Jakub_NF said:I just swapped out the motherboard and CPU, the PC booted fine so I went to apply some settings in BIOS like fans/XMP. The PC booted fine with ram at its rated speed (Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB 3200MHz CL16). I always had the ram running at 3600MHz on my old system (Gigabyte Z390 gaming x, i5-8600k) without changing any other memory settings. When I tried the same speed on the new system (Aorus Elite Z690 AX, i5-12600KF) the mobo just showed DRAM error and wouldn't boot. After waiting for 10 mins I restarted it but the bootdrive got bricked and I couldn't fix it even with the windows media creation tool so I had to reinstall. Is it possible that the ram will just work differenty on this system and won't overclock?
Yes, that is entirely possible. It’s also possible the RAM isn’t and wasn’t actually stable at those speeds without tweaking voltages or latencies.
RAM OCing is the most difficult form of OCing, it’s hard to get stable, and it’s even more difficult to test…
I am not trying to discourage you from trying it, but make sure you properly and fully test for stability; normal CPU stability tests are not at all good enough.
Fully read and understand this GitHub page, and use the tools they recommend the validate.
https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/oc-guide/DDR4 OC Guide.md
But, the short version is yes, RAM can behave differently in different platforms. My RAM was rock solid at 3600 on my 9900k system, I had to drop it down to 3500 on my 10700k system, all other settings being identical. It seemed stable under all standard tests, but after 8+ hours of Google’s RAM burn in test which runs on linux, I started to see an error or two crop up.
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