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Ok, so when I was horribly ignorant (not very long ago - I'm less ignorant now) about current PC tech, I leapt at a great RAM deal that my corporate IT friend (who is pretty ignorant, it turns out, about PC building) pointed out to me. I ordered it (it was over 4000 MHz), and then I canceled it because I noticed that it wasn't on the QVL, and that Patriot even said it probably wouldn't work. So, I replaced that with the Patriot Viper Steel 2x32GB DDR4 3600 CL18 RDIMMs.
It seemed to work just fine. I got a similar kit for my son's computer, which is with an i5-12600k and Asus TG B660-M wifi D4, but it's 2x16GB, and it also seemed to work fine.
But they aren't on the QVL.
Everything seemed fine, but when I had to send in my new XFX GC for a repair (they not only had to send it back to the factory, they sent me another card with the same problem), I relied on my iGPU to satisfy my gaming urges. Fortunately, my nerfed-by-age skills have discouraged me to the point that the urge isn't as strong as it used to be.
Welllll....I was in BIOS and noticed that XMP was off. I could have sworn that it was on. I turned it on and loaded up Destiny 2 (no, not in BIOS, smartarse!). It lagged far worse than before I'd turned on XMP (also without the GC).
So, I ran a few programs and, at first, things seemed like it was not a big deal. i mean, my computer runs plenty fast and when I was using my old Toshiba laptop during testing this weekend, I was so grateful for my custom PC. And yet...I finally saw that my frequency was nerfed to 2660 and my CAS latency is 19. Now, I'm a little confused because, looking at the Patriot page, it shows:
So, I have two options:
Ok, so when I was horribly ignorant (not very long ago - I'm less ignorant now) about current PC tech, I leapt at a great RAM deal that my corporate IT friend (who is pretty ignorant, it turns out, about PC building) pointed out to me. I ordered it (it was over 4000 MHz), and then I canceled it because I noticed that it wasn't on the QVL, and that Patriot even said it probably wouldn't work. So, I replaced that with the Patriot Viper Steel 2x32GB DDR4 3600 CL18 RDIMMs.
It seemed to work just fine. I got a similar kit for my son's computer, which is with an i5-12600k and Asus TG B660-M wifi D4, but it's 2x16GB, and it also seemed to work fine.
But they aren't on the QVL.
Everything seemed fine, but when I had to send in my new XFX GC for a repair (they not only had to send it back to the factory, they sent me another card with the same problem), I relied on my iGPU to satisfy my gaming urges. Fortunately, my nerfed-by-age skills have discouraged me to the point that the urge isn't as strong as it used to be.
Welllll....I was in BIOS and noticed that XMP was off. I could have sworn that it was on. I turned it on and loaded up Destiny 2 (no, not in BIOS, smartarse!). It lagged far worse than before I'd turned on XMP (also without the GC).
So, I ran a few programs and, at first, things seemed like it was not a big deal. i mean, my computer runs plenty fast and when I was using my old Toshiba laptop during testing this weekend, I was so grateful for my custom PC. And yet...I finally saw that my frequency was nerfed to 2660 and my CAS latency is 19. Now, I'm a little confused because, looking at the Patriot page, it shows:
Now, I don't know what the base stuff really means in terms of what I should expect, but it seems to me that I should be seeing 3600 MT/s at 1800 MHz (getting this wrong irritates RAM companies), and my CL should be 18. Interestingly, the timings I saw were 19-19-19-42. So, it's better, right? I mean, except for the really bad MT/s. And that is with XMP off.
So, I have two options:
- Grin and bear it.
- Buy different RAM and sell off the Patriot stuff.
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