I just setup the bare minimum needed for a system to POST.
A z490 motherboard, a 10700k cpu, a cooler, 3600mhz RAM, and a psu. Don't even have any additional fans or drives in the case yet.
Anyway, first thing I did after it posted was update my motherboard's BIOS to the latest version. Then the second thing I did was enable XMP... but that's when it went a little south.
The first time I attempted that, it did not reboot, then claimed it had detected a boot error. However, after that, it seems to POST with XMP enabled just fine. I tried rebooting with XMP turned on and OFF and it seemed to have no trouble posting.
However.... I noticed that it said my RAM speed was 3200Mhz, when it's supposed to be 3600 and the XMP profile is identifying it as 3600 in the BIOS.
I did notice that sometimes, like my CPU speed, it could fluctuate in the BIOS, but never go above 3200.
Should I be worried? Or is this normal behavior for the BIOS? I haven't installed an OS yet to check there as I want to let Memtest86+ run for a while first. I did get both the RAM and the CPU as open box.... but that was from Micro Center, which I was told I generally could trust open box items from.
A z490 motherboard, a 10700k cpu, a cooler, 3600mhz RAM, and a psu. Don't even have any additional fans or drives in the case yet.
Anyway, first thing I did after it posted was update my motherboard's BIOS to the latest version. Then the second thing I did was enable XMP... but that's when it went a little south.
The first time I attempted that, it did not reboot, then claimed it had detected a boot error. However, after that, it seems to POST with XMP enabled just fine. I tried rebooting with XMP turned on and OFF and it seemed to have no trouble posting.
However.... I noticed that it said my RAM speed was 3200Mhz, when it's supposed to be 3600 and the XMP profile is identifying it as 3600 in the BIOS.
I did notice that sometimes, like my CPU speed, it could fluctuate in the BIOS, but never go above 3200.
Should I be worried? Or is this normal behavior for the BIOS? I haven't installed an OS yet to check there as I want to let Memtest86+ run for a while first. I did get both the RAM and the CPU as open box.... but that was from Micro Center, which I was told I generally could trust open box items from.