Issues with Ryzen 1600x OC on X370 SLI plus w/ Trident Z 3200 Mhz ram

[A10Troll]

Hello all

 

Today I decided to overclock my Ryzen 5 1600x. After verifying my bios was up to date using MSI's Live update 6 software I jumped into the bios to attempt an overclock. 

 

I set my CPU voltage to 1.375 volts and my CPU target frequency to 3.9 GHz. As well, I overclocked the memory to 2933 MHz, with the voltage setting for the RAM set to Auto. (Any other setting caused a crash) 

 

Now the first time I booted CPU-z stated I had 3.9 GHz. After a quick Cinebench run I saw my score increase from the OEM of 1226 to 1265. Everything was stable as hell, any game I ran was perfect and stress tests were a dream. However, I checked my RAM frequency only to see each stick of 8Gb RAM was running 1066 MHz, so 2133 MHz total. So I restarted and went back into Bios and tried manual mode with RAM, where I set my 5 numbers to what was on the back of my box: 14 14 14 14 34. I rebooted and was displeased to see my RAM frequency was the same AND my overclock of 3.9 GHz went back to 3.6 GHz! I've tried nearly every combo of voltages and settings in the bios to no avail. I cannot overclock anything at all! 

 

Does anybody have any insight into what may be going on?

 

This is literally the first time I've ever overclocked so bear with me please. 

[Evanair]

When Ryzen RAM OC fails, it will default to the standard (cannot recall for the life of me the acronym) which is 1066/2133.  

If you want to OC now, lower your ram speed to 3000 and test it, perhaps even a step lower. Right now I'm running a x370 board on the Beta bios with the extra memory fix's plugged in.  In one bios update I went from 2933 to 3400 stable. The update is suppose to be pushed public soon, so don't fret too much.  It's probably not you, just the bugs need ironing out for the new platform.

[A10Troll]

2 minutes ago, Evanair said:

When Ryzen RAM OC fails, it will default to the standard (cannot recall for the life of me the acronym) which is 1066/2133.  

If you want to OC now, lower your ram speed to 3000 and test it, perhaps even a step lower. Right now I'm running a x370 board on the Beta bios with the extra memory fix's plugged in.  In one bios update I went from 2933 to 3400 stable. The update is suppose to be pushed public soon, so don't fret too much.  It's probably not you, just the bugs need ironing out for the new platform.

So I did get my overclock back to 3.9 GHz with some fiddling. As of now it's just RAM, defaulting back to 1067 MHz per stick. I'm gonna try a few more things and probably give it up and mark you as best answer unless someone can offer something else. I should just be happy I got a stable OC to begin with I suppose. 

[Mooshi]

Ryzen is a bit of a pita for overclocking if you're used to Intel. That said, I have my 1600 nonX Oc'd to a reasonable level to hit 1321 in Cine~

 

[AstroSky]

Da fuck?   I have the ryzen 1700 and im getting the same scores as you at stock :////   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^