Ram wont run higher than 3200 with rzyen

[NewBieDavid]

Hello,

I have recently updated my rig from 8 gb to 16 gb and from a ryzen 3 1200 to a 5 2600.

I have an Asrock pro 4 ab350 motherboard

(Now) 16 gb Ripjaws V rated @3200Mhz

550w corsair psu

gtx 1050

My problem is that before upgrading i used to run my 2x4gb kit at 3200 easy without crashing or anything.

Now after adding 2 more sticks and upgrading the cpu, anything higher than 2666 crashes constantly and setting it at 3200 makes my bios have pixelerrors and seem that my motherboard is about to die.

is this because of the 2 extra sticks added or is ryzen 5 2600 not working great with a b350 motherboard ?
Cheers

[Jurrunio]

Did you enable XMP/DOCP as usual?

 

otherwise you could check with the 2 newer sticks removed.

[NewBieDavid]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Did you enable XMP/DOCP as usual?

 

otherwise you could check with the 2 newer sticks removed.

Yeah I've went to bios, selected the XMP profile
Ill try and check if only 2 sticks work.

[Jurrunio]

Just now, NewBieDavid said:

Yeah I've went to bios, selected the XMP profile

I mean, the more sticks/capacity it has, the higher the load on the memory controller and the worse it overclocks. You can maybe try use the 1200 again with 4 sticks, and it's likely going to do just as badly.

[NewBieDavid]

22 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

I mean, the more sticks/capacity it has, the higher the load on the memory controller and the worse it overclocks. You can maybe try use the 1200 again with 4 sticks, and it's likely going to do just as badly.

Yeah so I just tried each kit individually, and they ran on 3200Mhz easily

apparently like you said the 4 sticks together seem to overclock worse.

is there anything I can do ? 
like manually overclocking and choosing different voltages or is it not worth it and I should stay on 2666?
Since I haven't overclocked RAM once in my life.

[xg32]

5 minutes ago, NewBieDavid said:

Yeah so I just tried each kit individually, and they ran on 3200Mhz easily

apparently like you said the 4 sticks together seem to overclock worse.

is there anything I can do ? 
like manually overclocking and choosing different voltages or is it not worth it and I should stay on 2666?
Since I haven't overclocked RAM once in my life.

u'd just have to go with 2 sticks, maybe u can clock the 16gb higher than 3200, definitely dont go down to 2666

[NewBieDavid]

22 minutes ago, xg32 said:

u'd just have to go with 2 sticks, maybe u can clock the 16gb higher than 3200, definitely dont go down to 2666

Well RIP I just bought the extra 2 sticks and If i send them back i will still have to sell my 2 old sticks which is just too much to do.
So Ill just have to stick tp 2666 then ? 
How much performance am I losing here ?

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, NewBieDavid said:

Yeah so I just tried each kit individually, and they ran on 3200Mhz easily

apparently like you said the 4 sticks together seem to overclock worse.

is there anything I can do ? 
like manually overclocking and choosing different voltages or is it not worth it and I should stay on 2666?
Since I haven't overclocked RAM once in my life.

You can try push memory voltage to 1.45V and see if it helps. If it doesnt, you'd want to try different SOC voltages, anywhere between 1.0V to 1.2V, so see if there's one or more voltage that lets you run this frequency and timings set by XMP. If you can find a voltage range for SOC that runs 3200MHz, try drop the memory voltage back to 1.35V. If 1.35v will lead to crashes or errors, just put it back to 1.45v

 

Do not go past 1.2V in SOC voltage. Memory stick doesnt care if they run 1.45V or 1.35V, they aren't really bothered with it. Just change it back because why would you want to use excessive voltage for no reason?