Cannot get XMP to work!!

[Jonez._]

Hey, so I am wondering if anyone is able to direct me.

 

I have a AMD Ryzen 7 3700x and a B450 DS3H Gigabyte motherboard. I recently bought Corsair Vengeance RAM 32gb with speed of 3200mhz.

When going into bios, I can see that my RAM speed is limited to 2133mhz speed however whenever I try and enable xmp, I get a black screen whenever I try and boot it up.

I cannot even manually input the speed because it's locked onto auto.

 

To be honest I am probably stupid and I have missed something very simple.

 

Has anyone else had this issue?

 

[freeagent]

Its an easy fix. Take them out of your system, put them back in the package, send them back and buy from another brand.

[191x7]

32 minutes ago, Jonez._ said:

Hey, so I am wondering if anyone is able to direct me.

 

I have a AMD Ryzen 7 3700x and a B450 DS3H Gigabyte motherboard. I recently bought Corsair Vengeance RAM 32gb with speed of 3200mhz.

When going into bios, I can see that my RAM speed is limited to 2133mhz speed however whenever I try and enable xmp, I get a black screen whenever I try and boot it up.

I cannot even manually input the speed because it's locked onto auto.

 

To be honest I am probably stupid and I have missed something very simple.

 

Has anyone else had this issue?

 

Latest bios?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

30 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Its an easy fix. Take them out of your system, put them back in the package, send them back and buy from another brand.

^^^

 

But you might aswell try manually setting 3200 without xmp see if theyll work

 

Cant give step by step since trying to find a bios overview only leads to useless bios update tutorials

 

essentially you go into MIT, go into advanced voltage, set dram volt to 1.4v, go into advanced freq settings or whatever its called, set memory multiplier to 32, then you go into whatever menu where you can adjust ram settings then set 18-20-20-20-56, save exir bios see if it works or not

 

If it works go back into bios and set memoey multiplier to 38 or whatevers the highest fclk your cpu can run (3800 = 1900fclk), ram should be up to it since most 16gbit ics should have no trouble clocking past 4000

 

xmp is apparently quite inconsistent hence you got a kit with a useless xmp, and id personally ditch that kit for some dual rank oem 2666 rams like hma82gu6djr8n if you are ocing anyways, but unless you can find a source for em with relative ease like here in indo you are better off keeping those rams

 

I do reccomend sending a thaiphoon burner screenshot to identify ic

[g0ated]

AMD chips especially the 7000 series are known for RAM issues, your best bet would be to either set the speed manually or to try another RAM kit and see if that works, make sure your bios is updated.

[freeagent]

10 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

But you might aswell try manually setting 3200 without xmp see if theyll work

He could. That brand has a terrible rep at this forum, as well as others.

 

I have some 3200C16 Adatas that do not do more than 3466 no matter what.

 

I also had to use DOCP and create a profile for it because the board refused to remember them when the PSU was unplugged lol..

 

It is working just at 2000 1:1 with some old Team B-Die right now, no problem.

 

It is not always as cut and dried with Ryzen. It is not Intel.. Corsair needs to step up their memory game quite a bit.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

10 minutes ago, freeagent said:

He could. That brand has a terrible rep at this forum, as well as others.

 

I have some 3200C16 Adatas that do not do more than 3466 no matter what.

 

I also had to use DOCP and create a profile for it because the board refused to remember them when the PSU was unplugged lol..

 

It is working just at 2000 1:1 with some old Team B-Die right now, no problem.

 

It is not always as cut and dried with Ryzen. It is not Intel.. Corsair needs to step up their memory game quite a bit.

i guess buying oem bare pcbs has its perks when i dont have to deal with this shit, and the only branded ram i have deliberately bought is my xtreem dark 1066c6 but thats because micron d9 seem to be pretty rare in indo but hey atleast they clock well

 

are branded rams really that bad to the point that even cheapo oem bare pcbs are better? I mean ram ics are ram ics i kinda dont see how a minor pcb change will affect em, my transcend psc bare pcbs seem to be capable of >2800 but amd fx or the 970 extreme3 kinda letting me down and only hitting 2700 when in windows and being able to post 2640 from bios. 2800 freezes at the splash screen, think i even managed to get 3000 to get to the splash screen once

[Jonez._]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Honestly at this rate I might actually just return them. My bios is up to date, I've had a go at pretty much everything suggested here but I guess that is what you get with Corsair and their RAM. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction and things but yeah, nothing but issues. I'll try a different company and fingers crossed they work much better!! Corsair RAM <<<

[g0ated]

18 minutes ago, Jonez._ said:

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Honestly at this rate I might actually just return them. My bios is up to date, I've had a go at pretty much everything suggested here but I guess that is what you get with Corsair and their RAM. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction and things but yeah, nothing but issues. I'll try a different company and fingers crossed they work much better!! Corsair RAM <<<

I recommend going for G-Skill with AMD chips, they work great.

[Jonez._]

8 minutes ago, goatedpenguin said:

I recommend going for G-Skill with AMD chips, they work great.

Thank you for the recommendation, I was wondering what to go for but you've pretty much answered my question haha!! I'll be returning them tomorrow so I'll definitely go for G-Skill as they seem pretty reliable and far better than Corsair's RAM. Cheers

[freeagent]

2 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

re branded rams really that bad to the point that even cheapo oem bare pcbs are better?

Depends whats on the OEM sticks I guess.

 

I had problems with Corsair DDR2 on Intel. More than one set were problematic for me. Now I dont buy anything from them.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

4 hours ago, freeagent said:

Depends whats on the OEM sticks I guess.

 

I had problems with Corsair DDR2 on Intel. More than one set were problematic for me. Now I dont buy anything from them.

I just assumed they had issues cause of how common they were especially those overpriced vengeance (rgb) sticks everywhere in every build i saw before ddr5 rolled around

 

i just buy bare pcbs with manufacturer branding on it, so hynixes/klevvs, samsungs, and microns/crucials. But when i wanna search a specific ic like that d9qbj that turned out to be garbage i just request that specific ic and sometimes ill get oem branded stuff that isnt ic manufacturer branding like hp (which is what happened for those d9qbj) or maybe china branded garbage with rebranded ics ontop of that to make verifying them annoying asf. I mean my pscs are transcend branded

 

oh well dont think ill understand the inconveniences of xmp for awhile when im simply gonna manually tune my rams anyways and destroy xmp in performance

[Jonez._]

23 hours ago, freeagent said:

Depends whats on the OEM sticks I guess.

 

I had problems with Corsair DDR2 on Intel. More than one set were problematic for me. Now I dont buy anything from them.

Yeah I don't blame you at all for not wanting to buy from them again.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

5 hours ago, Jonez._ said:

Yeah I don't blame you at all for not wanting to buy from them again.

Not to mention generic 3200c16/3600c18 kits are awful for overclocking simply due to the random ics, heck youll be stuck to shitty single rank dimms till you get to 64gb kits where you can get dual rank 8gb and 16gb sticks when you buy oem bare pcbs alongside not getting random garbage ics and you can specify the ics you want just by using the model number like m378a1g43eb1 for an 8gb double sided (dual rank) 4gbit e die which is the predeccesor to b die so you can imagine what its capable of (2v+ scaling, low trfc, etc.), this also means you can upgrade your rams down the line without worrying about compatibility cause you simply order the same model number and done, ram ics match hence compatibility is 100% guaranteed, though for quad rank configs might be abit of a pain to readjust your previous overclock unless you are on intel or use a cezzane apu (5500/5600g/5700g)