Question Help me overclock my RAM, pls

[Fat Bluesman]

I've got a Ryzen 5 3600, a MSI A520M-A Pro and 2 sticks of this RAM

https://imgur.com/a/YSX170c

View: https://imgur.com/a/YSX170c
I've never overclocked PC components before...

EDIT: why is my imgur pic hidden?

 

[boju]

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I see the kit of ram is 3600, what option does bios give you for XMP profile?

 

[Fat Bluesman]

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I see the kit of ram is 3600, what option does bios give you for XMP profile?

It gives me 3600MHZ

 

[SkyNetRising]

It gives me 3600MHZ

Go into BIOS and enable A-XMP.
Then show screenshots from CPU-Z - memory and spd sections.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

W

Go into BIOS and enable A-XMP.
Then show screenshots from CPU-Z - memory and spd sections.

Already tried that but my CPU only supports 3200MHZ and I got a BSOD a couple of seconds after logging in (or... did it boot at all?)

https://imgur.com/EbZh4UV

View: https://imgur.com/EbZh4UV

https://imgur.com/hrZfG2L

View: https://imgur.com/hrZfG2L

 

[Zerk2012]

W

Already tried that but my CPU only supports 3200MHZ and I got a BSOD a couple of seconds after logging in.

Set it again to 3600 using A-XMP then manually change only the speed to 3200.

 

[punkncat]

There is no significant reason for you to OC that if you can get it to run at 3200. Keep in mind that those A chipset motherboards have sub par power delivery as a part of what makes them so inexpensive.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

It boots.
If it is stable, is this all I need to configure?

 

[Zerk2012]

It boots.
If it is stable, is this all I need to configure?

IF you did what I said then yes, but I would run a memory stress test to make sure it's stable.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

IF you did what I said then yes, but I would run a memory stress test to make sure it's stable.

I selected A XMP profile, set it to 3200, saved the changes and exited.

 

[Zerk2012]

I selected A XMP profile, set it to 3200, saved the changes and exited.

Should be good I would still run a memory stress test to make sure it's stable.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

THX

 

[Fat Bluesman]

It BSODed on me...
What's the next step - set it to the next lower XMP-frequency?

 

[SkyNetRising]

It BSODed on me...
What's the next step - set it to the next lower XMP-frequency?

Make sure DDR voltage is set to 1.35V.
And decrease DDR frequency to 3000mhz.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

Make sure DDR voltage is set to 1.35V.
And decrease DDR frequency to 3000mhz.

Did that - should I run memtest now?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yeah. Sure.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

Yeah. Sure.

I ran the default test twice - it rebooted by itself during the 2nd pass the first time and during the 3rd pass the second time- what to set DRAM Voltage / frequency to now?

 

[Fat Bluesman]

Can anyone link me an amazon (Germany) product page for cheap compatible 3200mhz memory?

 

[SkyNetRising]

what to set DRAM Voltage / frequency to now?

Lower frequency by one step further.
2933mhz, 2800mhz ... until you get stable operation.

Keep DRAM voltage at 1.35V.

 

[Fat Bluesman]

This kit is compatible, right - It says "ver4.32" is required on the MSI website - there is only one kit available with this SKU, right?

 

[troyer1234567]

1.Turn off any xmp profile
2.Set Dram Voltage to 1.35V
3.Set ram freq to 3600mhz
4.Boot, run memtest
If any problem happened or any instability you saw, lower the freq one step and repeat step 2-4
After finally finding a stable spot, go for timings if you know how to if not, ask here but first do what i said


Btw you are not using ryzen APU so you don't need ram freq to get higher fps in games if that's why you seek to OC the ram freq

 

[Fat Bluesman]

I tried XMP profile 2 and ran memtest86 again and this time, it didn't crash and there were 430 errors after 2 hours - does that mean it's broken?

memtest log