So long story short i just built my pc 2 days ago. Here are the specs:
PCPartPicker Part List
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor | $322.99 @ SuperBiiz
CPU Cooler | NZXT Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | $136.44 @ Amazon
Motherboard | Gigabyte X570 GAMING X ATX AM4 Motherboard | $169.99 @ Newegg
Memory | Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | $94.99 @ Amazon
Storage | Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive | $66.95 @ Adorama
Storage | Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $39.99 @ Amazon
Video Card | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB GAMING OC 3X Video Card |-
Case | Deepcool MATREXX 70 ATX Mid Tower Case | $71.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply | SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | $107.99 @ SuperBiiz
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $1011.32
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-31 05:14 EST-0500 |
Booted normally, installed windows 10, changed XMP profile to Profile 1 and RAM became 3200 instead of the default 2133. Everything was fine until i started playing games. In three different games i was experiencing BSOD, crashes to desktop and eventually corrupted game files. At some point it even broke the windows so i had to reinstall it. That didn't fix anything tho. After running various stress tests and benchmarks i think it's safe to say the cause is the RAM (or the DIMM slots actually, i dont have any other hardware to test).
Here are the things i tried so far and didn't work:
Updating and installing every possible driver.
Checked RAM firmware in the iCue app - said it was up to date anyways.
Updating BIOS - my BIOS was on version F3 which is the initial release version (for this mobo i guess). There were 4 other BIOS versions with very optimistic change notes about improved memory and XMP compatibilities and whatnot so i decided to give it a try. Sadly it didn't work.
Ran Windows Memory Diagnostics which showed no errors.
Another thing i noticed that might or might not be of any valuable information is that the RAM RGB LEDs (the default effect is vertical rainbow going from top to bottom) go out of sync after a short time of running without Corsair's iCue software.
I can't really try the other 2 DIMM slots because the pipe fittings of the CPU cooler are blocking the left-most slots. Also the ones i
One thing that caught my attention is the voltage. On default 2133 it's 1.20V, on XMP it's 1.35V. Ryzen Master also reports 1.35V. Now, i went back to my order info and clicked the exact same product i ordered (i actually got rid of most of the boxes when the whole thing was up and running) and the name goes like Memory 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 3200MHz, Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro, CMW16GX4M2C3200C16, 1.2V . Going through the site there is the same model (well few letters in the model name are different - CMW16GX4M2Z3200C16) that says 1.35V at the end which seems to be out of stock . There's also TUF gaming version also but mine isn't for sure. So is my RAM running on higher voltage than intended? Could this be the cause? If so, should i try to lower the voltage manually from the BIOS and could that lead to some serious damage?
Thanks in advance to everyone spending some of their holiday time to help a brother out. May you have a happy new year!
PCPartPicker Part List
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor | $322.99 @ SuperBiiz
CPU Cooler | NZXT Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | $136.44 @ Amazon
Motherboard | Gigabyte X570 GAMING X ATX AM4 Motherboard | $169.99 @ Newegg
Memory | Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | $94.99 @ Amazon
Storage | Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive | $66.95 @ Adorama
Storage | Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $39.99 @ Amazon
Video Card | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB GAMING OC 3X Video Card |-
Case | Deepcool MATREXX 70 ATX Mid Tower Case | $71.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply | SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | $107.99 @ SuperBiiz
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $1011.32
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-31 05:14 EST-0500 |
Booted normally, installed windows 10, changed XMP profile to Profile 1 and RAM became 3200 instead of the default 2133. Everything was fine until i started playing games. In three different games i was experiencing BSOD, crashes to desktop and eventually corrupted game files. At some point it even broke the windows so i had to reinstall it. That didn't fix anything tho. After running various stress tests and benchmarks i think it's safe to say the cause is the RAM (or the DIMM slots actually, i dont have any other hardware to test).
Here are the things i tried so far and didn't work:
Updating and installing every possible driver.
Checked RAM firmware in the iCue app - said it was up to date anyways.
Updating BIOS - my BIOS was on version F3 which is the initial release version (for this mobo i guess). There were 4 other BIOS versions with very optimistic change notes about improved memory and XMP compatibilities and whatnot so i decided to give it a try. Sadly it didn't work.
Ran Windows Memory Diagnostics which showed no errors.
Another thing i noticed that might or might not be of any valuable information is that the RAM RGB LEDs (the default effect is vertical rainbow going from top to bottom) go out of sync after a short time of running without Corsair's iCue software.
I can't really try the other 2 DIMM slots because the pipe fittings of the CPU cooler are blocking the left-most slots. Also the ones i
m currently using were marked as the ones you should use when running 2 sticks of dual channel RAM on the mobo manual.
What did work, however, is turning off the XMP profile back to Disabled thus running RAM on 2133MHz. This worked like a charm and managed to play the three initial games without a single crash or BSoD for a whole day. Does this mean it's not faulty RAM/Mobo? Anyway i decided to further and try some manual tuning. Now i
ve never done this so i was kinda scared to mess up a lot so i loaded the default 3200 XMP profile and then turned down the Frequency multiplied down to 3000 MHz. So far i played two entire games of Rainbow 6 Siege without a crash (for reference with 3200 MHz i could barely play one or two rounds). However, I will do some more testing with other games as well. So how bad is 3000 MHz compared to 3200? I mean i obviously paid for 3200 and afaik Ryzen really enjoys higher frequency. Next step is maybe take them to the shop i bought them from if they can test them and maybe give me a replacement. The manual increase adds 66 Mhz on each click so i guess i could test it once or twice more to see which is the highest stable. Apart from the frequency, there is also a literal ton of other settings which i`m not familiar with so i decided to leave them with the default for the XMP Profile 1.One thing that caught my attention is the voltage. On default 2133 it's 1.20V, on XMP it's 1.35V. Ryzen Master also reports 1.35V. Now, i went back to my order info and clicked the exact same product i ordered (i actually got rid of most of the boxes when the whole thing was up and running) and the name goes like Memory 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 3200MHz, Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro, CMW16GX4M2C3200C16, 1.2V . Going through the site there is the same model (well few letters in the model name are different - CMW16GX4M2Z3200C16) that says 1.35V at the end which seems to be out of stock . There's also TUF gaming version also but mine isn't for sure. So is my RAM running on higher voltage than intended? Could this be the cause? If so, should i try to lower the voltage manually from the BIOS and could that lead to some serious damage?
Thanks in advance to everyone spending some of their holiday time to help a brother out. May you have a happy new year!