[SOLVED] A newbie who's trying to overclock a 3600 MHz Ram.

[T34lapod]

I'd say I'm still a newbie and I regret buying a 3600mhz 32GB RAM from TeamGroup when not knowing that my AMD 7 1700x is not maybe not compatible with the speed of the RAM and I'm also running on an ASRock motherboard AB350M-HDV.

I have watched tutorials how to change the speed via the BIO(UEFI for me) menu and changed it to 3600mhz but it resulted some errors whereas: My PC would take time to boot and also restarting for each 3-5 seconds. Changing it to 3466 MHz resulted a normal boot and no errors but looking at the Task Manager, it says that my speed is 1200 MHz and according to my DRAM Frequency, it's running on "1197.1 MHz". SPD says also the same thing although the 4th column in the Timings Table is my XMP Profile: XMP-3596, I'd like to ask also what does that 4 last digit represent?

Have I already overclocked it? I know I'm not providing enough info but I'll reply to you with an info soon as I can.

 

[alceryes]

You won't get 3600MHz with that CPU/motherboard.
The 1200 you see is actually 2400 DDR. That may be as high as it will go. Maybe you can get 2600. Also, do yourself a favor and verify stability with Memtest86. Just because it can boot into Windows doesn't mean it's stable.

 

[geofelt]

CPU-Z memory and spd tabs will give you the clearest picture of what you are actually running.
Technically, higher than stock speed ram is overclocked. It needs higher than the default 1.2vto do so.
Your 3600 speed ram kit probably cost $10 more than a 3200 speed kit.
Do not beat yourself up about that.

The delay you see on start up is the motherboard bios trying to find a ram setting that works. To avoid the delay in the future, enter the eventual running settings in the bios to begin with.

Your motherboard can support ram running at 3200 if you upgrade to a later gen processor.

 

[mamasan2000]

I don't know anything about your mobo and don't want to research it either but Ryzen 1700 can do 3000 Mhz at least, on a "normal" motherboard.
Since the XMP didn't take, RAM reverts to 2400 Mhz. RAM sticks have different timings coded in. My 3600 Mhz kit reverts to 2666 Mhz if I remember correctly. Of course I upgraded from Ryzen 1700 to a 5600x and got the faster RAM at the same time. The old RAM I had running at 3000 Mhz (XMP) with R1700, well, I could clock it up to 3800 Mhz. Same motherboard, some Asus. But with the new 5600x. It's been years but think the most I got out of that old RAM was 3200 or 3333 Mhz with a Ryzen 1700.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect
It's just reading the SPD, not actually running at those speeds.

If you are thinking "What if I upgrade my CPU to something like a 5600x?" I can tell you it doesn't change much. I think I gained 10 fps in games. So RAM went from 3000 -> 3800 Mhz and CPU from 1700 -> 5600x. The much bigger upgrade was from a Vega56 to an Nvidia 2080. I almost doubled my FPS with the GPU upgrade.
Would I spend 200 dollars on a new mobo that supports 5600x or better and 300 dollars or more on a new CPU for 10 fps? Absolutely not.

 

[bfollett]

Make sure you get the latest bios for your motherboard that is compatible with your first-generation Ryzen. Lots of motherboard bios updates relate to memory compatibility. Ryzen 1700x is only officially supported to 2666Mhz memory, so you could go back in the bios and enable XMP but then manually set the Frequency back to 2666. If it works, you can start climbing the ladder of frequencies to see how close you can get to 3000 with your 1700x.

 

[Zerk2012]

I'd say I'm still a newbie and I regret buying a 3600mhz 32GB RAM from TeamGroup when not knowing that my AMD 7 1700x is not maybe not compatible with the speed of the RAM and I'm also running on an ASRock motherboard AB350M-HDV.

I have watched tutorials how to change the speed via the BIO(UEFI for me) menu and changed it to 3600mhz but it resulted some errors whereas: My PC would take time to boot and also restarting for each 3-5 seconds. Changing it to 3466 MHz resulted a normal boot and no errors but looking at the Task Manager, it says that my speed is 1200 MHz and according to my DRAM Frequency, it's running on "1197.1 MHz". SPD says also the same thing although the 4th column in the Timings Table is my XMP Profile: XMP-3596, I'd like to ask also what does that 4 last digit represent?

Have I already overclocked it? I know I'm not providing enough info but I'll reply to you with an info soon as I can.

It's resetting because it can't run that fast.

Go into BIOS and enable XMP profile then manually change the speed to 2933 save and exit.

 

[Karadjgne]

Oof.

1st gen Ryzen could run 3200MHz stable, but basically that only happens with B-die chips, which the Team Group don't use.

3000MHz is an oddball frequency, many boards do Not like it and don't support it since it's a 200Hz buss, not a 266Hz buss and amd prefers 266Hz clocks. 2933MHz is the best general frequency to run those older cpu ram at. It's a 266Hz derivative.

In bios, set xmp but manually set the ram speed at 2933MHz.