thegreenthing wrote:
It's a damn shame that those memory sticks don't like XMP. Were those on the capatable list? I would imagine that you paid a slight premium for those.
I have attempted almost no troubleshooting IE: trying the other set of slot's for my two DIMM's. Also my BIOS was the one that came with the board, not even mentioned in the BIOS list on the Asus website. This ram set is not on the qualified vendor list but that's not what I'm looking for, I don't want set and forget. With current setup I can run asus optimization and hit 5ghz no issues. But I'm looking for the ability to tweak and this ram set is said to be for those who want to push their system with constant testing and stressing.
For anyone who want's to set and forget I would look for a known ram set that'll run XMP out of the box, then push the Ghz to your cooling potential and chip silicone lottery. At the same time if you are a set and forget person, the ram will honestly make little difference. This machine runs solid and responsive no matter the setting's, click click 5ghz and can't even tell the ram is at 2133.
Even in synthetic benchmark's the score is the same at 4.8Ghz cinebench whether the bclk is 100 or 200. Basically it's fast or fast or fast. I built this machine because I wanted to tweak all the little bit's, for average use I can't tell much of a difference to my x99 5820k w/950 pro m.2 So average use was not my end goal.