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I am new to overclocking and just bought a,  Gigabyte g1 z170 motherboard,  an i5 6000k with 16gb of 3000mhz memory and cant seem to get it to run at the the aforementioned speed or in XMP mode, is it the same as a CPU where as I need to tweak the voltage? 

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Hum, Overclocking Memory is highly non recommended.

What speed is it running at :

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22 minutes ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said:

Hum, Overclocking Memory is highly non recommended.

What speed is it running at :

wat

literally any ddr4 above 2133 is overclocked. xmp just sets a overclock thats 100% stable. overclocking memory is totally fine.

 

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did you try to enter the primary timings manually? (cl15-15-15-35-T2 for example and select 3000mhz for frequency) xmp doesnt set secondary or tertiary timings anyway. you might need to tweak a little voltage on your vccsa (system agent voltage, but shouldnt be more than 50mv on skylake) adding 25mv to your dram voltage can  increase stability too.

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What RAM did you get?

Please quote my post, or put @paddy-stone if you want me to respond to you.

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16 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

What RAM did you get?

Corsair dominator platinum 

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40 minutes ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said:

Hum, Overclocking Memory is highly non recommended.

What speed is it running at :

2133 atm

 

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24 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

wat

literally any ddr4 above 2133 is overclocked. xmp just sets a overclock thats 100% stable. overclocking memory is totally fine.

 

@WeeMan85

 

did you try to enter the primary timings manually? (cl15-15-15-35-T2 for example and select 3000mhz for frequency) xmp doesnt set secondary or tertiary timings anyway. you might need to tweak a little voltage on your vccsa (system agent voltage, but shouldnt be more than 50mv on skylake) adding 25mv to your dram voltage can  increase stability too.

I will have a look at this tonight when I get in thanks 

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5 minutes ago, WeeMan85 said:

 

Corsair dominator platinum 

Hmm, sorry don't have any experience of this myself.. had a look at a few reviews that seem to suggest that the RAM could be unstable, a few people have had problems trying to get it to run at that speed. How long have you had the sticks?  if you haven't had them long I would be tempted to return them and get something different.

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1 hour ago, Minsekt said:

wat

literally any ddr4 above 2133 is overclocked. xmp just sets a overclock thats 100% stable. overclocking memory is totally fine.

 

@WeeMan85

 

did you try to enter the primary timings manually? (cl15-15-15-35-T2 for example and select 3000mhz for frequency) xmp doesnt set secondary or tertiary timings anyway. you might need to tweak a little voltage on your vccsa (system agent voltage, but shouldnt be more than 50mv on skylake) adding 25mv to your dram voltage can  increase stability too.

I would do this bit it mite be me and I'd hate to look a fool lol

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1 hour ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said:

Hum, Overclocking Memory is highly non recommended.

What speed is it running at :

Highly not recommended by who? You? The only people who do not recommend memory overclocking are the people that do not know how to overclock memory. 

 

1 hour ago, Minsekt said:

wat

literally any ddr4 above 2133 is overclocked. xmp just sets a overclock thats 100% stable. overclocking memory is totally fine.

 

@WeeMan85

 

did you try to enter the primary timings manually? (cl15-15-15-35-T2 for example and select 3000mhz for frequency) xmp doesnt set secondary or tertiary timings anyway. you might need to tweak a little voltage on your vccsa (system agent voltage, but shouldnt be more than 50mv on skylake) adding 25mv to your dram voltage can  increase stability too.

Solid advice here. You do not want to have VCCIO/VCCSA running beyond 1.25v for 24/7. I personally do not recommend running over 1.15v, as you can technically make it run with less voltage by slightly loosening certain tertiary timings, with little impact on overall bandwidth. 

 

2 hours ago, WeeMan85 said:

I am new to overclocking and just bought a,  Gigabyte g1 z170 motherboard,  an i5 6000k with 16gb of 3000mhz memory and cant seem to get it to run at the the aforementioned speed or in XMP mode, is it the same as a CPU where as I need to tweak the voltage? 

You may want to look into turning MRC Fast Boot off. I dislike the way it handles previously trained timings. I would do that first, then follow the advice given by Minsekt above. 

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3 hours ago, WeeMan85 said:

I am new to overclocking and just bought a,  Gigabyte g1 z170 motherboard,  an i5 6000k with 16gb of 3000mhz memory and cant seem to get it to run at the the aforementioned speed or in XMP mode, is it the same as a CPU where as I need to tweak the voltage? 

What BIOS version are you running? Some early revision BIOS's had limited/poorly implemented XMP support (this goes for nearly all the manufacturers). I'd only run the BIOS update if you see more recent versions that specifically site memory/XMP support updates.

 

This should be as simple as hitting the XMP drop-down menu and choosing your speed divider.

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4 hours ago, Minsekt said:

wat

literally any ddr4 above 2133 is overclocked. xmp just sets a overclock thats 100% stable. overclocking memory is totally fine.

 

@WeeMan85

 

did you try to enter the primary timings manually? (cl15-15-15-35-T2 for example and select 3000mhz for frequency) xmp doesnt set secondary or tertiary timings anyway. you might need to tweak a little voltage on your vccsa (system agent voltage, but shouldnt be more than 50mv on skylake) adding 25mv to your dram voltage can  increase stability too.

I'm going to research all what you have set about adjusting the timings manually because I have no idea how to go about doing it

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1 hour ago, runit3 said:

What BIOS version are you running? Some early revision BIOS's had limited/poorly implemented XMP support (this goes for nearly all the manufacturers). I'd only run the BIOS update if you see more recent versions that specifically site memory/XMP support updates.

 

This should be as simple as hitting the XMP drop-down menu and choosing your speed divider.

In theory yes, in pratice it's a bit more finnicky. A lot of Z170 boards have issues with XMP. Setting it will result in a failed OC on boot. Usually not on 500 dollar boards though.

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Well i have some results i have XMP working but not at the specified speed as memory suggests (3000mhz) i have it running at 2800mhz in XMP but any higher and PC wont post. this is as far as my memory knowledge goes as of now and i have updated BIOS.

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3 hours ago, Egla said:

In theory yes, in pratice it's a bit more finnicky. A lot of Z170 boards have issues with XMP. Setting it will result in a failed OC on boot. Usually not on 500 dollar boards though.

failed for what reasons? I haven't had any XMP issues with my OC Formula w/i3-6100 or the 6600k :| I do always manually key in my voltage values though.

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2 hours ago, WeeMan85 said:

Well i have some results i have XMP working but not at the specified speed as memory suggests (3000mhz) i have it running at 2800mhz in XMP but any higher and PC wont post. this is as far as my memory knowledge goes as of now and i have updated BIOS.

Is the DRAM voltage being adjusted to match the XMP specs? If it has try notching up the RAM voltage by .01-.02v and keying manually.

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Honestly I don't know how to.  I haven't looked into it

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16 hours ago, runit3 said:

failed for what reasons? I haven't had any XMP issues with my OC Formula w/i3-6100 or the 6600k :| I do always manually key in my voltage values though.

Some boards can't handle the memory overclock and they will give you the error message OC failed. XMP is a factory defined overclock of the memory. It's mostly the cheaper boards that have problems with XMP. More expensive boards with better power delivery system (more phases for CPU and mem etc) have less issues.

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1 hour ago, Egla said:

Some boards can't handle the memory overclock and they will give you the error message OC failed. XMP is a factory defined overclock of the memory. It's mostly the cheaper boards that have problems with XMP. More expensive boards with better power delivery system (more phases for CPU and mem etc) have less issues.

It just won't post 

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On 7/3/2016 at 2:32 PM, Minsekt said:

wat

literally any ddr4 above 2133 is overclocked. xmp just sets a overclock thats 100% stable. overclocking memory is totally fine.

I mean manually, messing with timings and everything. 

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