Cpu ram bottle neck???

[Izicial_Rage]

Hey all first time poster and first time pc builder. I have 6700k i7 skylake on a g1 gaming gigabyte motherboard and the issue I am having is I'm trying to run 32 gigs of ram ddr4 gskill Trident 3400hz but I can only get 16gigs to run in it. I have the chip boosted to 4.2 instead of the stock 4.0. I was wondering what I'm going to have to do to get the other 16 gigs to run without adding more cash to the hog I've already been feeding. I bought it all as a package deal from newegg last year sometime. Any tips would be amazing. Before asked I do video editing and run a stream on this right that's why I'm trying to get the 32 gigs to run so that there is no reduction in speed. I also have 2 gtx970s that are sli in the rig. With a 1200 watt evga platinum powers supply. Thanks in advance. I appreciate it. 

[79wjd]

Does the bios see 32GB or only 16gb?

Are you sure all the sticks work? 

Try removing the overclock on your cpu and on the RAM. 

[ARikozuM]

Stick to the 16GB. You won't need more unless you're doing something that needs it. 

 

Your PSU should be lowered to a 550W P2.

[Izicial_Rage]

The computer will not go to bios or post if all 32 gigs are in the rig. I have swapped all the sticks and all the sticks are good and will be recognized if only 2 sticks are in the board

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1 minute ago, Izicial_Rage said:

The computer will not go to bios or post if all 32 gigs are in the rig. I have swapped all the sticks and all the sticks are good and will be recognized if only 2 sticks are in the board

Did you install them like the motherboard manual said?

[Izicial_Rage]

Each video card has a recommended wattage of 400 watts. 

[79wjd]

3 minutes ago, Izicial_Rage said:

The computer will not go to bios or post if all 32 gigs are in the rig. I have swapped all the sticks and all the sticks are good and will be recognized if only 2 sticks are in the board

What happens when you try to boot with all 32gb of ram? Are there any beep error codes or LED number/letter error codes? Do the fans spin up? Does it not power on at all? Does it power on and then shutdown immediately? 

 

Have you tested each memory slot?

What are your full specs? 

 

Try 24gb of ram. Try removing the overclocks on everything. Try resetting the CMOS on the motherboard and restoring it to factory settings. 

 

1 minute ago, Izicial_Rage said:

Each video card has a recommended wattage of 400 watts. 

That's referring to total system wattage. Each GPU only needs like 180w. A quality 550w PSU would technically be sufficient. 

[Izicial_Rage]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Did you install them like the motherboard manual said?

Yes I did. 

[Izicial_Rage]

3 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

What happens when you try to boot with all 32gb of ram? Are there any beep error codes or LED number/letter error codes? Do the fans spin up? Does it not power on at all? Does it power on and then shutdown immediately? 

 

Have you tested each memory slot?

What are your full specs? 

 

Try 24gb of ram. Try removing the overclocks on everything. Try resetting the CMOS on the motherboard and restoring it to factory settings. 

 

That's referring to total system wattage. Each GPU only needs like 180w. A quality 550w PSU would technically be sufficient. 

I get a failed to initialize memory error code off the mother board. 

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Izicial_Rage said:

I get a failed to initialize memory error code off the mother board. 

Have you tested each memory slot? Maybe one/two of the slots are bad. 

What are your full specs? 

 

Try 24gb of ram. Try removing the overclocks on everything. Try resetting the CMOS on the motherboard and restoring it to factory settings. 

[Izicial_Rage]

7 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Have you tested each memory slot? Maybe one/two of the slots are bad. 

What are your full specs? 

 

Try 24gb of ram. Try removing the overclocks on everything. Try resetting the CMOS on the motherboard and restoring it to factory settings. 

I'm running a i7 6700k lga 1151 4.0 skylake at 4.2 on a g1 gigabyte gaming motherboard with 16gigs of Gskill Trident 3400hz ddr4 ram. (Packaged deal included 32 gigs). Two GTX 970s Sli with two Kingston ssds 500gb (not sure on their spec) and a WD 2 tb storage. Windows 10 os. EVGA 1200 watt platinum ps

[Izicial_Rage]

10 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Have you tested each memory slot? Maybe one/two of the slots are bad. 

What are your full specs? 

 

Try 24gb of ram. Try removing the overclocks on everything. Try resetting the CMOS on the motherboard and restoring it to factory settings. 

I was under the impression you had to have ram in the sequential spots in the motherboard in order for the ram to run. 

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Izicial_Rage said:

I was under the impression you had to have ram in the sequential spots in the motherboard in order for the ram to run. 

You need to fill alternating spots in order to take advantage of dual channel, but you can put any number of sticks in any configuration and it will work (just in single channel instead of dual channel). 

[Izicial_Rage]

2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

You need to fill alternating spots in order to take advantage of dual channel, but you can put any number of sticks in any configuration and it will work (just in single channel instead of dual channel). 

Ok I did not know that. I will have to test each individual slot then. I wish I had this info back 4 months ago when I first started building it. But I just had come across Linus video on YouTube being lazy at work. If it does end up being a slot newegg won't send me a replacement board sadly

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Izicial_Rage said:

Ok I did not know that. I will have to test each individual slot then. I wish I had this info back 4 months ago when I first started building it. But I just had come across Linus video on YouTube being lazy at work. If it does end up being a slot newegg won't send me a replacement board sadly

If you have a bad slot, then you can contact Gigabyte and they'll replace the board. 

[Izicial_Rage]

5 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

If you have a bad slot, then you can contact Gigabyte and they'll replace the board. 

That's amazing news. I didn't think they would considering the Cpu being boosted to 4.2

[79wjd]

Just now, Izicial_Rage said:

That's amazing news. I didn't think they would considering the Cpu being boosted to 4.2

You don't tell them you overclocked (not that they would care anyway).

[Izicial_Rage]

9 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

You don't tell them you overclocked (not that they would care anyway).

Gotcha ya thank you very much for the info and as soon as I have the spare time I will most definitely be testing the methods you gave me and I will post back with what has become of my first pc build. 

[Izicial_Rage]

Thank you all for the information. I will get back to this post as soon as I've had time to try the above mentioned remedies. Appreciate all of you taking the time to respond.