Hi guys,
So I bought another ram kit to test with, and its on the QVL -
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C14D-16GVK
https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232217?Item=N82E16820232217It is Samsung B-Die ram and most people have big success OCing it...
And I have installed it, reset cmos, tested stable at default 2133... and.......... instantly fail stress tests when I enable XMP. Same thing as the 32gb kit I was using before.
So now, we have QVL excuses removed, lets figure this out. With XMP enabled I tried all kinds of different voltages, i stepped up to 1.45 dram v, I stepped up to 1.29 SA and IO v separately and together, and I've actually tried lowering SA/IO down below auto voltages. Changing the voltages don't seem to help, the highest speed stable I have been able to hit which I'm running at now is 3000, see screenshots of settings at this speed, and thats with XMP off. I've tried over 30 voltage combinations to try and get to XMP stability but I can't figure it out. If I bump to 3066 stresss tests fail after a few minutes, 3100 test fail instantly. Is it timings? Is it something other then SA/IO/DRAM voltages? Any suggestions?
Also, when I try to enable XMP with this ram I get a popup about MSI XMP boost raising my bclk to 100.8, I tried a few voltages with that but it seems to make the stability even worse before I started hitting no to that option.
All this trouble and I saw an article today about how the DRAM OC record was broken... using my same motherboard model!