Ryzen 5 Memory Speeds

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Hi, I am pretty new at memory overclocking and therefore am not too sure about how to get my G.Skill 2x8GB 3000mhz C16 kit as high as I can on my 1600X ryzen system with ASUS X370 PRO motherboard, this has the newest 604 Bios, so far I have got the following setup and am not sure how to push memory speeds further: 

 

Ryzen 5 1600X @ 4Ghz 1.39v 

G.Skill Trident Z RGB CL16 3000Mhz 2x8GB @ 2400 16-18-18-38-18 ~ 1.375V  

ASUS X370 Prime PRO BIOS: 604 SOC @ 1.1v 

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Set it to 2933 and the rated timings as well as 1.35v and see if it boots.

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1 hour ago, DocSwag said:

Set it to 2933 and the rated timings as well as 1.35v and see if it boots.

Nope, I just tried it, it simply refuses to post beyond 2400mhz, in fact it wouldn't even post with 2400 before I added more voltage to the SOC

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5 minutes ago, NerdModeEngaged said:

Nope, I just tried it, it simply refuses to post beyond 2400mhz, in fact it wouldn't even post with 2400 before I added more voltage to the SOC

See if you could get it any higher if you dial back the CPU overclock.

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Just now, DocSwag said:

See if you could get it any higher if you dial back the CPU overclock.

Will try that in a bit, however i think there is a greater benefit from having a higher core clock than memory clock, even on Ryzen

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3 minutes ago, NerdModeEngaged said:

Will try that in a bit, however i think there is a greater benefit from having a higher core clock than memory clock, even on Ryzen

No, completely untrue. Especially in gaming, memory clocks actually make a substantially larger difference than core clocks. You'd be better off doing 3 ghz 3200 MHz than 4 ghz 2133 MHz, most likely.

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Just now, DocSwag said:

No, completely untrue. Especially in gaming, memory clocks actually make a substantially larger difference than core clocks. You'd be better off doing 3 ghz 3200 MHz than 4 ghz 2133 MHz, most likely.

I will definitely will have to bench this as a do find this sort of thing very intresting

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3 minutes ago, NerdModeEngaged said:

I will definitely will have to bench this as a do find this sort of thing very intresting

If you want some references:

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2865-ryzen-revisit-ram-overclock-windows-update-efi-updates/page-5

 

Hence why getting the ram to higher speeds is something you definitely should try to do.

 

The clock speed of the infinity fabric that links the two CCXs in Ryzen together is directly linked to that of the memory clock speed, which is most likely the reason for memory making such a large difference.

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1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

If you want some references:

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2865-ryzen-revisit-ram-overclock-windows-update-efi-updates/page-5

 

Hence why getting the ram to higher speeds is something you definitely should try to do.

 

The clock speed of the infinity fabric that links the two CCXs in Ryzen together is directly linked to that of the memory clock speed, which is most likely the reason for memory making such a large difference.

What I am interested to see is a Ryzen 5 w/ 1060/480 memory test because I am wondering if the lower overall compute power would result in the memory making less of a difference than it does with the Ryzen 7 8 core behemoths 

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Well, as an owner of a 480, if I get the memory speeds up i would be able to conduct this testing myself 

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3 minutes ago, NerdModeEngaged said:

What I am interested to see is a Ryzen 5 w/ 1060/480 memory test because I am wondering if the lower overall compute power would result in the memory making less of a difference than it does with the Ryzen 7 8 core behemoths 

It is still possible that it will make a smaller difference since less cores are actually sending data over the same speed bus but it should still make some difference.

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This is why I didnt bother with a memory kit over 3000mhz, Ryzen 7 seems to perform optimally with 3200+ Mhz so i was confident that a mere 6 core would not be starved by 3000mhz memory