[SOLVED] Asrock Gaming X X370 - 75ns RAM Latency after startup! Please help!

Kograth303

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When I start up my PC (2x8 gigs of RAM @ 3200mhz) if I check my mem latency is ~57ns... but after like 5 minutes of idling the PC enters a weird state in thich it locks into ~75ns latency on RAM.

I have the latest 4.9 BIOS (before the 5.2 AMD graphics driver update) and I have everything stable on my PC.

Note: With stock settings latency is even worse.
Also here is my ram description:
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/20c502_0bd610f48ab0467b84483f3c3257d892.pdf

Update:
If I boot from my older SSD, I have 58ns, if I boot from my new M.2 SSD it's where I get 75ns after a few minutes. Maybe this helps...
 
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Yeah, I'd make sure your OC is stable before you worry about anything else. Kind of surprising that a newer BIOS would result in worse stability, but I guess it happens.

I just mentioned power setting because I figured it's possible the CPU was going into a low power state when idling and didn't have a chance to fully ramp up before memory latency was measured.

Kograth303

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I am using PerformanceTest memory benchmark from PassMark. I think I found the answers to my question... it seems to be an unstable OC to the CPU - I had my Ryzen 1700 @ 4050mhz, and my memory was at 75ns, but after lowering it to 4000, it actually was stable at 58-59ns which is the average I see out there.

Additional stuff I did: I upgraded my Bios to the latest 5.2 - which totally screwed up my memory as in I wasn't even able to post at memory factory settings of 3200 only at 3000... so I had to downgrade my Bios to 3.5 (initially being at 4.9 but I decided to go a bit further back before all the Pinnacle updates).

I'll still test the stability and bench it... but I think I kind of get why it had errors, Ryzen 1 series just doesn't like going beyond 4Ghz it would seem.

Edit: Didn't check the power setting, will check it though, even if this may have already solved my case.
 

TJ Hooker

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Yeah, I'd make sure your OC is stable before you worry about anything else. Kind of surprising that a newer BIOS would result in worse stability, but I guess it happens.

I just mentioned power setting because I figured it's possible the CPU was going into a low power state when idling and didn't have a chance to fully ramp up before memory latency was measured.
 
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