Overclocked RAM, crashes games. MemTest shows zero errors.

[ole.martin.ibsen]

Hello.

I've just tried overclocking my RAM with A-XMP, but at 2933MHz PUBG and other games have been freezing/crashing randomly to desktop. I ran a MemTest and it showed 0 errors after 4 passes. I don't have any experience with overclocking and my CPU running at stock values.

Should I try disabling A-XMP and manually clock my RAM, could it make games more stable?


AFAIK my motherboard should be able to handle overclocked ram up to 3400MHz. My ram is 3000MHz.

Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk, Socket-AM4
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz

 

[vapour]

Manual OC + 1. Did you test your XMP OC stability with realbench/aida64? If not, do so. If you see crash during the test, means your xmp profile is not stable. Try manually set DOCP timing and VRAM voltage in BIOS. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ucP3qtYlQ

 

[JamesSneed]

MemTest just shows your memory from a hardware perspective is OK it does not stress the memory at all.

Try setting XMP and bump the voltage from 1.35 to 1.37 and see if that helps.

Also you didnt say is this two sticks only?

 

[ole.martin.ibsen]

Manual OC + 1. Did you test your XMP OC stability with realbench/aida64? If not, do so. If you see crash during the test, means your xmp profile is not stable. Try manually set DOCP timing and VRAM voltage in BIOS. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ucP3qtYlQ

I just tested with RealBench (Image editing, H.264 Video Encoding, OpenCL and Heavy Multitasking) and it says everything is OK, however it does also say "Unable to properly parse system specs." but I suspect thats unrelated? I'll take a look at the YouTube video now.

 

[ole.martin.ibsen]

MemTest just shows your memory from a hardware perspective is OK it does not stress the memory at all.

Try setting XMP and bump the voltage from 1.35 to 1.37 and see if that helps.

Also you didnt say is this two sticks only?

Ah I see. Didn't know that, thanks for clarifying. Its two sticks. 8GB each.

 

[JamesSneed]

MemTest just shows your memory from a hardware perspective is OK it does not stress the memory at all.

Try setting XMP and bump the voltage from 1.35 to 1.37 and see if that helps.

Also you didnt say is this two sticks only?

Ah I see. Didn't know that, thanks for clarifying. Its two sticks. 8GB each.

Two sticks should hit this easy, do you have the latest 7A34v19 BIOS? The last couple BIOS updates have had AGESA code changes to help with memory stability.

 

[ole.martin.ibsen]

MemTest just shows your memory from a hardware perspective is OK it does not stress the memory at all.

Try setting XMP and bump the voltage from 1.35 to 1.37 and see if that helps.

Also you didnt say is this two sticks only?

Ah I see. Didn't know that, thanks for clarifying. Its two sticks. 8GB each.

Two sticks should hit this easy, do you have the latest 7A34v19 BIOS? The last couple BIOS updates have had AGESA code changes to help with memory stability.

I updated to the latest BIOS yesterday.

 

[JamesSneed]

Did you try running XMP with 1.37 volts yet?

 

[ole.martin.ibsen]

Did you try running XMP with 1.37 volts yet?

Yes, tried it just now. Warframe crashed after just 10~ seconds after getting ingame.

(RealBench still reports everything as OK even though Warframe crashes)

https://imgur.com/a/h6f7N

Sorry for potato quality on the photo.

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from ole.martin.ibsen : "Overclocked RAM, crashes games. MemTest shows zero errors."

Hello.

I've just tried overclocking my RAM with A-XMP, but at 2933MHz PUBG and other games have been freezing/crashing randomly to desktop. I ran a MemTest and it showed 0 errors after 4 passes. I don't have any experience with overclocking and my CPU running at stock values.

Should I try disabling A-XMP and manually clock my RAM, could it make games more stable?


AFAIK my motherboard should be able to handle overclocked ram up to 3400MHz. My ram is 3000MHz.

Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk, Socket-AM4
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz

Are your exact ram model on the motherboard QVL list?
Ryzen boards are very picky about ram, specially when you overclock them.

 

[ole.martin.ibsen]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from ole.martin.ibsen : "Overclocked RAM, crashes games. MemTest shows zero errors."

Hello.

I've just tried overclocking my RAM with A-XMP, but at 2933MHz PUBG and other games have been freezing/crashing randomly to desktop. I ran a MemTest and it showed 0 errors after 4 passes. I don't have any experience with overclocking and my CPU running at stock values.

Should I try disabling A-XMP and manually clock my RAM, could it make games more stable?


AFAIK my motherboard should be able to handle overclocked ram up to 3400MHz. My ram is 3000MHz.

Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk, Socket-AM4
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz

Are your exact ram model on the motherboard QVL list?
Ryzen boards are very picky about ram, specially when you overclock them.

I am not sure. These are my exact components

https://www.komplett.no/product/915082/datautstyr/pc-komponenter/hovedkort/amd-socket/msi-b350-tomahawk-socket-am4?noredirect=true?noredirect=true#

https://www.komplett.no/product/893833/datautstyr/pc-komponenter/minnebrikker/corsair-vengeance-lpx-ddr4-3000mhz-16gb?noredirect=true?noredirect=true#

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from ole.martin.ibsen : "Overclocked RAM, crashes games. MemTest shows zero errors."

Hello.

I've just tried overclocking my RAM with A-XMP, but at 2933MHz PUBG and other games have been freezing/crashing randomly to desktop. I ran a MemTest and it showed 0 errors after 4 passes. I don't have any experience with overclocking and my CPU running at stock values.

Should I try disabling A-XMP and manually clock my RAM, could it make games more stable?


AFAIK my motherboard should be able to handle overclocked ram up to 3400MHz. My ram is 3000MHz.

Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk, Socket-AM4
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz

Are your exact ram model on the motherboard QVL list?
Ryzen boards are very picky about ram, specially when you overclock them.

I am not sure. These are my exact components

https://www.komplett.no/product/915082/datautstyr/pc-komponenter/hovedkort/amd-socket/msi-b350-tomahawk-socket-am4?noredirect=true?noredirect=true#

https://www.komplett.no/product/893833/datautstyr/pc-komponenter/minnebrikker/corsair-vengeance-lpx-ddr4-3000mhz-16gb?noredirect=true?noredirect=true#

Your exact Ram model number is CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 amd they doesn't seem to be on the qvl list.

 

[vapour]

Should be compatible,

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($86.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($162.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $249.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-20 23:16 EDT-0400

QVL list is usually very limited. My ram is not listed either, but running 3200 at DOCP setting just fine on my MSI gaming pro. What DOCP timing did you put in?

 

[vapour]

Also play with SOC voltage a little bit as well. Do not exceed 1.1V

 

[ole.martin.ibsen]

Should be compatible,

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($86.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($162.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $249.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-20 23:16 EDT-0400

QVL list is usually very limited. My ram is not listed either, but running 3200 at DOCP setting just fine on my MSI gaming pro. What DOCP timing did you put in?

Everything except voltage is set to auto. I was told clocking RAM with X-AMP (Profile 1) was basically fire and forget so I haven't messed with the settings individually.

 

[vapour]

reset bios and try gaming again.