Please place one stick of ram on either side of the CPU that would be my first suggestion.

Thanks for the advice guys, when i get home tonight im going to the ram configuration you suggested HiVizMan. If that fails i will try and reset my cpu. Is it possible to do this manually xt-107 (i have no display)? Or do i just pull the motherboard battery out?

I think he meant 'reseat' your CPU.
To reset/clear the BIOS you just press the button on the rear panel.

HiVizMan is right.
I was looking at that and I'm like where's all the memory? Then I realized you probably put them all on the left channels.
Check your motherboard manual for the dual channel setup for the memory config for your board.

I just looked it up for you. You want to install a stick into B1 and D1 according to the manual for the R4F for dual channel setup. Those would be the inner slots closest to the CPU on each side.

Yeah i have tried every single ram configuration, nothing is working unfortunatly. Guess i will try and reseat the cpu tonight, really wish i had built it out of case first now!! Is it possibly its not my ram, but the cpu is actually stuffed?

Remove your system from the case and place it on the box your motherboard came in as a temp work bench.

Remove all the components from your system, including the CPU and the motherboard battery.

All you have on the box is a naked (and rather forlorn looking) motherboard - no PSU connectors nothing connected.

Press power for a few seconds to remove any residual charge from the capacitors and then a slow three count of the Clear CMOS button. Use your manual to find out where it is if you are not 100% sure. Had a mate who swore blind his CMOS clear button was not working and called me all sorts of rude names. Brought his board over to my house and I pressed the button and cleared his CMOS. WTF he says? How did you do that, it turns out he was using the ROG connect button all the time incorrectly, I will not be needing to buy and beer for Christmas I might add, he was very apologetic.

Leave for a couple of hours and then after visually inspecting the CPU socket area, take a couple of very high res photo's while you are at it - fit the CPU again. Use only one stick of memory in the slot furtherest away from the CPU (either side) and no HDD.

Boot to BIOS.

Manually set your ram up.


If that fails change the BIOS to your B bios and start again.

Thank you everyone for your help and suggestions. I am happy to report the problem has been resolved 😄
It was quite possibly a bios issue, i tried so many different solutions (repositioning ram, clearing cmos, re-flashing bios, re-booting a bajillion times), well one or the combination of all these things got it started. Its sooooo quiet, and the gpu clocks 1228 without breaking a sweat, Im in love!