Boot loop when RAM is OC'd?

[insyght]

Ok guys.

A friend of mine recently bought and built his own PC with my help and wants to try overclocking.

First off, specs.

Ryzen 5 1600X

ASRock B350 itx/ac

G.Skill Aegis DDR4-3000 (16GBs)

GTX 1070

500W PSU

aaand other stuff

His PC booted up just fine... everything worked until we enabled either XMP-Profiling or overclocked his 1600X. To be fair, his processor is "only" running at 3.8Ghz and we wanted to try to get the RAM to 3200Mhz.

BUT

As soon as we restarted from the BIOS, the PC would boot loop 3-6 times  No idea why, after that it starts just fine. Also, I set his 1600X to 3.825Mhz at 1.3375V and in CPU-Z this shows up:

 

Any ideas on how to fix either of those oddities?

[stealth80]

Read the memory guide in my signature - standard Ryzen ram glitch

[insyght]

5 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Read the memory guide in my signature - standard Ryzen ram glitch

Just checked it, the RAM won't go over 2133Mhz. Gonna try and loosen up those timings.

Otherwise, would a BIOS update work?

[dcgreen2k]

6 minutes ago, insyght said:

Just checked it, the RAM won't go over 2133Mhz. Gonna try and loosen up those timings.

Otherwise, would a BIOS update work?

Yes

[insyght]

5 minutes ago, insyght said:

Just checked it, the RAM won't go over 2133Mhz. Gonna try and loosen up those timings.

Otherwise, would a BIOS update work?

Alright, I changed the timings to 18-20-20-20-40 and it booted no problem. However, CPU-Z is showing my speeds as 1463Mhz whilst TASK MANAGER shows it at 2934Mhz which is what I opted for this time. Weird.

[intender]

cpu-z shows your actual ram speed of 1463.  remember its ddr, (double data rate).  You have multiply that x2 to get your ddr rate which would be 2934.

[insyght]

2 minutes ago, intender said:

cpu-z shows your actual ram speed of 1463.  remember its ddr, (double data rate).  You have multiply that x2 to get your ddr rate which would be 2934.

LUL

well you never stop learning.... oopsie daisy. So the RAM OC is stable... the Ryzen however wont go over 3.339 when 3.8 is set in BIOS.

[insyght]

Okay, one more status update...

 

I have used "Ryzen Master to get the 1600X to 3.8Ghz at 1.33125V.

Since the ASRock BIOS was showing some other Voltage controls I had no knowledge about, I would've just stuck to this.

 

But since I am an "I don't want it that easy" guy, I updated the BIOS to version 4.40 and é voila! That did it. Simple overclock, memory is running as intended, no helper software needed.

 

Thanks to everyone for helping me out or trying to I learned quite a bit today as I am still new to overclocking.

Consider this case closed.