Ram crashes'/freezing bios after bios update.

[machman30232v8]

I have an asrock z170pro4s that was working fine with my ddr4 ram @ 2.998mhz using an i5 6500. I never used the sky overclocking on the board for non K cpus and updated the bios because of random freezing when i was in the bios. I had the ram speed set by the intel xmp profile as well. After updating to the latest bios which specifically states it removes sky overclocking i cant get my ram running at 2.998mhz it only works at the minimum 2133mhz. i am using Corsair memory rated at 3000mhz by the way. Using xmp or just manually setting the ram speed higher than 2133mhz prevents my computer from booting, cant even enter the bios i have to reset the cmos to get back into the bios.

 

[junkeymonkey]

Memory Types DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V

http://ark.intel.com/products/88184/Intel-Core-i5-6500-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz

that maybe where the non k overclocking feature came in play to ''overclock'' the memory and all to support that 3000

with that anything over 2133 on that i5 non k chip is a overclock and now you don't have a ''K'' chip to support that speeds ??

 

[machman30232v8]

Memory Types DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V

http://ark.intel.com/products/88184/Intel-Core-i5-6500-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz

that maybe where the non k overclocking feature came in play to ''overclock'' the memory and all to support that 3000

with that anything over 2133 on that i5 non k chip is a overclock and now you don't have a ''K'' chip to support that speeds ??

 

[machman30232v8]

Thanks for reply quickly. I have an asus z97 with a Pentium g 3220 and that board lets me set the ram speed to 1866mhz with intel xmp enabled. haswell Pentiums max out at 1333mhz. I thought it was possible to run faster ram with your cpu as long as you have a z chipset.

 

[junkeymonkey]

well now it could be a skylake limitation as well there a bit more proprietary then haswell on a few things ??

intel got funny with them

can be the difference in how the boards series handles the memory in its bios ? like I said skylake is ''funny''

and it sems like this was discussed here at tome as well

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2962892/sky-falling-asrock-removes-feature-bios-update.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2898875/asrock-makes-skylake-cpu-overclocking-official-sky-z170-bios-update.html

kinda where I say I cant recommend a skylake over a haswell build

thing is with a intel if running faster speeds on memory its all ways best to use a ''k'' chip the increase in memory can mean a increase in cpu overclocks

may best find a bios available on your board that still has the non k overclock feature ??