[SOLVED] Ryzen 3 220G and DDR4 2933 (3000) mucho dislikey

greigm78

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We have 3 systems in the house, 2 are R5 2600 based, both with 16Gb DDR4 3200 (albeit one is HyperX Predator and the other Corsair Vengeance Pro) and a smaller R3 2200G based cube that my son uses fir homework and the occasional blast of Minecraft. It only has 2 x 4Gb 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX.

Recently, I upgraded the RAM on my system from 3000MHz to 3200MHz and all is good... BUT, when I went to pop the 3000MHz 2 x 8Gb (Corsair Vengeance LPX) into the cube system to freshen it up... did mot like. 4 long beeps and EZDebug flashed CPU. Pop that RAM in the R5 systems, coolio. Pop back in R3 system., not a chance. 2666 sticks work fine.
Is R3 2200G limited by RAM speed?

Full spec;
CPU: Ryzen 3 2200G APU w/ Noctua Nh-9L
MB: MSI B450I Gaming Plus ITX AC
RAM: 2 x 4Gb Corsair Vengeance 2666MHz (want to go to 2 x 8Gb 3000 of same RAM type)
GPU: Radeon RX570 8GB MSI Armor OC
SSD: WD Green SATA SSD 120gGb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1Tb 7200RPM
Case: Kolink Satellite Plus ITX
PSU: Corsair CX450M (2018)

Any ideas or advice?
 

greigm78

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Nope, it should work fine with either 3200mhz or 3000mhz ram. I would advise you to flash the latest bios onto your motherboard to improve ram compatibility. Then see if the ram works properly.

Full marks this man. BIOS was two versions out and after a few beeps and restarts it accepted the memory upgrade.

On a side note, why MSI changed the BIOS layout from the red and black easy to use GUI to the horrible heavily textual black and white thing is beyond me.