Did update the bios this morning, running into bluescreens, installed an older motherboard i had laying around (x470 aorus) every time i try to set it to 3600 the mobo crashes and goes back to default. So even with another motherboard i cant even seem to get the memory running at the max potential, guess i will just buy one fast stick, which also worries me since with even one stick the motherboard recognizes the ram as 2133.
Anyone with a solution or should i just get a single fast chip?
Hey there,
No, don't buy 1 fast stick. That will not help you, as you will lose dual channel mode which gives 20% performance increase. Ideally you need to have a matched kit. either 2 x 8gb or 2 x 16gb.
Did you set your ram to run at XMP? It's not very clear from your answers. If not, you need to try that. In your picture above it says 'Memory Timing Mode'. What options are there under memory timings mode? If XMP doesn't work, then you can try set the ram speeds/voltage and timings manually. This is more complicated but not hard.
In CPU-z click on the 'SPD' tab. Then show us that. It will tell you what the timings are for it's rated speed (3600) and then you can input those timings manually.
Also, although you did a bios update, if you did not do a CMOS clear, this could be causing the blue screen issues. You must do a CMOS clear after a bios update.
What make model is your current ram? Are they a matched kit? Are they different sticks from different manufacturers? This could be the problem also.
Finally, test you ram outside of windows using memtest86+. Let it run for 4 passes, and if there are no errors, at least we know it's not the ram DIMMS that are faulty.