Trying to overclock my RAM with an ASUS Prime B350-Plus and a Ryzen 5 3600 processor?
Trying to overclock my RAM with an ASUS Prime B350-Plus and a Ryzen 5 3600 processor?
I have read in several posts that the trouble of making RAM run faster might just be worth it. I've also been told there isn't much gain from overclocking a 3600 processor. Here is what I have: A Ryzen 5 3600 running on my stock ASUS Prime B350-Plus, paired with two sticks of Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM (Hynix brand) set to 2933 MHz in the BIOS. My CPU-Z shows a current speed of 3200 MHz. I hope this motherboard can push that speed even higher, or maybe just a tiny bit more. I also want a slight boost for FPS and faster desktop performance. I read that lowering the voltage while keeping timings optimal might help with the Ryzen CPU. The question is: is it really worth it to try to get 200 MHz faster? When I tried to adjust the timings on my old RAM when I had an Intel Core i5-1600X, I used a tool called Thaiphoon & Ryzen DRAM Calculator. I typed in all the settings in the BIOS one by one. Then I forgot about it and never posted the info back up to everyone because I didn't know why it failed or how to continue. So I left it there since I had no idea what was going on. Also, I would be more willing to overclock if it doesn't require me to remember to remove the battery and reset the CMOS over and over again. Luckily, not every single failure needs that extra step. 😊 Thanks for reading!
The main issue with the 300 series chipset is that it has a specific memory layout. Only Samsung chips worked well for boosting speed above 2933 MHz. Pushing to 3200 MHz usually makes memory slower instead of faster, which hurts total performance. Instead of trying to overheat and overclock, try lowering the CL value (like going from 15 to 12). When I used a Kingston 3200 RAM with an Hynix M-die chip, it actually ran better at 3200 MHz than the Samsung model did at a higher speed.
Okay... Do you have any tips to help me figure out how to do this? I looked at a few online guides about adjusting those timings, but honestly, they are just confusing and I don't get them at all. 😏 The Ryzen DRAM Calculator tweaks almost every setting in the BIOS. That method didn't work for me either. Some other guides suggest changing only a few values from that CPU-Z screenshot I shared. Like, should I just put numbers here based on this chart while leaving the rest of the BIOS settings alone and see what happens? Frequency CAS RCD RP RAS RC RRDS RRDL CCDL FAW 1067 MHz 16 15 15 36 50 4 6 6 23 1067 MHz 15 15 15 36 50 4 6 6 23 933 MHz 14 13 14 31 44 4 5 5 20 933 MHz 13 13 14 31 44 4 5 5 20 800 MHz 12 11 12 27 38 3 5 5 17 800 MHz 11 11 12 27 38 3 5 5 17 667 MHz 10 9 10 22 31 3 4 4 14 667 MHz 9 9 10 22 31 3 4 4 14 For instance, could the values from the top line actually work for a 2933 MHz memory? Like I said, I'm totally lost about this. 😆
You need to check a different table called the JEDEC one instead. There is also a THAIPHOON burner link at http://www.softnology.biz/files.html that explains your RAM and XMP settings better. It shows what your highest speed can be, which looks like 1499MHz here.
Here is your whole Thaiphoon Burner profile exported for the DRAM Calculator: The Manufacturer of this memory chip is Corsair. The specific Module Part Number is CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 and it comes in a Series called Vengeance LPX. This memory was made by Hynix, using components from part number H5AN8G8NAFR-TFC. It uses an A process node which is 21 nanometers thick. The Manufacturing Date is marked as unknown on the report, but the location of where it was built is Taiwan. The Serial Number listed here is 00000000h and the PCB Revision Code is just 00h. This physical part has a very thin frame that measures about 31 to 32 millimeters in height, with maximum thicknesses of only 1 to 2 millimeters on both sides. It has one DIMM Rank and uses a Standard Monolithic DRAM Package made from 78 balls in an FBGA format. There is just a single die inside the chip which controls all ten bit column addresses, sixteen bit row addresses, and two bit bank addresses for four banks. The Bank Group Addressing tells us it has four groups of memory that can be accessed together. The DRAM Device Width is set to eight bits and the Calculated DRAM Density shows 8 gigabytes total. There are exactly eight individual components holding this data together. Each page of data is one kilobyte in size, but the main bus connecting everything is sixty-four bits wide with no extensions added for extra power. Repair services like Soft Post Package Repair or Post Package Repair are not supported by this specific unit. The timing settings show a very fast Medium Timebase of 0.125 nanoseconds and a Fine Timebase of 0.001 nanoseconds. This chip supports many types of data delays, going up to fourteen types including T, but it has the fastest Minimum Clock Cycle Time at about 938 nanoseconds. To stay safe, this part requires a CAS Latency that can support up to twelve types and takes just over thirteen milliseconds before reading data. It also needs a very long Row Precharge Delay of about fourteen milliseconds to pause its activity before moving on again. When it needs to refresh itself, it takes around thirty-three milliseconds to go back from active state. This chip has special delays for specific modes like 2x and 4x which take longer than ten milliseconds depending on the speed setting. It also has a Short Row Active to Row Active Delay of just under four milliseconds when in short row mode. The Four Activate Window Delay is twenty-one milliseconds while the Maximum Active Window goes up to eighty-one thousand nanoseconds. This chip uses nineteen volts for power and runs well without needing immediate replacement if it fails. There are two official profiles available: one certified profile that says yes and another extreme profile that turns off but still works. The memory was built at a speed grade of 2133P downbin, which means it's running slower than the base speed. My manual only allows me to set the safe option here since I don't know my exact revision number from the cover. Even though there is no x-ray vision to see through the plastic cover and check if this memory is a bad bin, the manual says to leave the setting alone because it looks the same as any other memory without special tools. The guides for me suggest setting the frequency to 3000 MHz based on what it was made for, but my actual Thaiphoon data shows it is running at 2933 MHz now. When I originally ran this RAM at 3000 MHz from an Asus DOCP cooler, the system automatically dropped it down to 2933 MHz and hasn't changed since then because there isn't any real performance difference between those two numbers for me. I don't think changing it back would matter either unless some settings change differently on different speeds or if I want to tweak specific timings right now at this speed since the system has been stable at 2933 MHz. How does that sound? Thanks!
I tried fixing things myself but nothing stuck. I checked a few settings from the manual once, even hit Windows but then blacked out (BSOD). Small progress though: the D.O.C.P Standard moved my RAM speed from 2933 MHz up to 2994 MHz and cut down some timings a bit. edit. Just remembered: my RAM sticks are in slots A1 and B1, but the manual says they should be in A2 and B2. When I built the machine, it only recognized 8 gigs of RAM initially. Moving them into the right slots worked. Could the slot choice stop me from getting overclocking (OC) to work?