[SOLVED] Ram on 4000 mhz doesnt boot (Gigabyte Z370M i58600k)

[racer20124]

Hello there, bought two 4200 mhz ram sticks recently and installed them. Just realized they were running at 3600 instead of 4000 mhz ( i think thats the maximum the mb can handle).
I tried setting the frequency to 4000 in the bios manually, but it doesnt boot. XMP on OFC.
Any tips are appreciated

 

[Tioym]

What is your RAM and Motherboard?
I'm guessing the XMP profile runs at 1.35V?
You may need more voltage although anything above 1.45V can be bad, I wouldn't go above 1.4V.
You can also try loosening the timings a little, you should be able to achieve 4200 with worse timings. I personally wouldn't do this.

 

[racer20124]

What is your RAM and Motherboard?
I'm guessing the XMP profile runs at 1.35V?
You may need more voltage although anything above 1.45V can be bad, I wouldn't go above 1.4V.
You can also try loosening the timings a little, you should be able to achieve 4200 with worse timings. I personally wouldn't do this.

Motherboard is the Gigabyte Z70M with an i8600k on it. Ram is 4200 mhz from corsair i think. Cpu z shows me a Uncore Frequency of 4000mhz, so i guess its the max my motherboard can achieve? Ill look if the XMP profile shows 1.35 V later and mess with the Voltage a bit😀

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Not surprised. 4200mhz is very very fast ram, and it will be difficult to run, especially with a platform from 4 years ago. 2666mhz is the maximum frequency that CPU supports, and anything past that is considered overclocking, thus is not guaranteed to work.


One thing you might be able to do is to try increasing the dram voltage up in small increments, keeping it under 1.5v. Lower is better.

If you cant get it running at 4200mhz, its not really going to effect performance very much.