Recent content by MicSve

Thanks both, Followed the advice and now enjoying my upgrade - well worth the investment :)

Hi all, I have managed to get my hands on a RTX3070 which arrived today. My current GPU is a GTX1660 Super. My question is, do you need to uninstall the existing drivers using DDU before you do the install of the new card or is does it not matter? Seems to be differing opinions based on who...

Bought a Ryzen 5 3600 with the stock cooler last year and it was the noise that got to me and made me buy the Noctua u14s. Got a bit carried away and added a second fan for push/pull effect. Almost completely silent now with idle temps at 25c and struggling to get past 60c (before I regularly...

CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard Asus B550 TUF Gaming Ram Corsair Vengeance 3600mhz My "struggle" is detailed in this thread :) https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/faulty-ram.75252/

I decided to return the 2 additional sticks in the end and stay at 16 GB @3600MHz for now, which is running without any issues. Most likely I will buy 2 x 16gb sticks at some point. I am convinced that it is bios issue and can see that Asus have released two new versions since I had my issue...

They still do 3600MHz just not in 16GB sticks - they confirmed that on the phone

Thanks both. I was leaning that way too so good to hear that you agree :) I don't think PCS does 16GB sticks at 3600MHz so might just have to drop down to 3200MHz, but so be it. Thanks again for your help.

I think I have exhausted the amount of testing I can do and would be good to get everyone's view on what I should potentially do next. In summary, I have learned the following: 1. both my old and new ram sets ( 2 sets of 2 x 8 GB) work fine in slots A2/B2 at 3600MHz 2. When I put either set in...

I have kind of gone the other way by going from 3600MHz down to 3200MHz where it stabilised Overnight memtest showed errors so will do some more tests....

So installed the latest Bios version (which is a beta) as recommended by PCS and definitely seen an improvement but it is not 100% there yet. Managed to boot several times with all 4 sticks of ram at 3600MHz and use the system with no issues. However, generally if I turn it off and start it...

Spoken to PCS and it is quite common to have problems running 4 sticks at 3600MHz. The advice is that I install the latest bios version (1216) at it specifically address DRAM compatibility, which I will give a go later on today

Strangely my ram (cm4x8gd3600c18k2d) does not appear on the Qualified Vendor List for the motherboard? https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GAMING-B550-PLUS/HelpDesk_QVL_Memory/ Will see what PCS say tomorrow and report back

Yes I think I will give them a call in the morning and see what they suggest. System has been working fine at 3000Mhz all evening but strange that it is happy with 3600Mhz with two sticks but not 4.

Done a bit more testing. Basically I have gradually increased the memory speed in the Bios from 2133MHz upwards with all 4 ram sticks installed and it seems stable at 3000MHz with no boot errors and windows working fine. From what I can read on various forums it looks like I am not the only...

Found these two posts which is exactly my problem, but none of them come to a conclusive answer :eek: https://community.amd.com/t5/processors/amd-ryzen-5-3600x-ram-slots-a1-b1-run-at-reduced-speed-on-asus/td-p/303621 https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/4x8gb-3600mhz-ram-not-stable.3587473/