ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING issues

[Fredy M]

can someone confir this as an usb port ?Attachment 73955

from what I can see that may be a firewire connector but that should be labeled F1394 or something

[yghrt]

Hey community,

I have an issue with my two slightly different memory kits in this MOBO, I'm using CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 and CMK8GX4M2B3000C15R where the only difference is the color (its a 2x4gb 3000mhz cl15 kit twice, making 4x4gb), both of them are VER 5.20 Extra spec info: PSU - FSP Hexa+ 500 | GPU - GTX 1060.

So, the problem is when I use only 2 dimms from the same color It's working fine at 2933mhz, and when I mix 1 red and 1 black it boots for the third time trying and works after that, but when I use all 4, I can't boot into bios with 2933mhz, It's resetting to 2133 and when I boot into windows the system is unstable even with 2133 defaults, getting BSOD-s, system hangs, hardware failure.

So what I tried so far:

• Update bios | Downgrade bios | Modded bios and everything listed below with all bios versions
• Manually set the timings to 15-17-17-17-35 (extra 17 is because my mobo)
• Manually set DRAM Voltage to 1.350
• Try to fiddle with VPP_MEM Voltage
• Increasing VTDDR Voltage
• SoC voltage at 1.1v
• ProcODT at 60ohm
• CMD at 2T
• CLDO_VDDP at 965 - 975
• Memory interleaving mode channel
• Loosen timings to 16-18-18-18-40
• Increase DRAM Voltage to 1.380v to 1.400v
• Fiddle with other timings not being set by D.O.C.P. but being able to read out from SPD
• CPU LLC and SOC LLC tried from regular to extreme
• Try other frequencies like 2800mhz, It boots up but Is unstable in everything, just like the default 2133mhz
• Ran memtest with all of them individually, no problems

Any ideas what else can I do to make this even stable at least at 2133mhz?
Or is this some other issue.

[AniChatt]

Hey community,

I have an issue with my two slightly different memory kits in this MOBO, I'm using CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 and CMK8GX4M2B3000C15R where the only difference is the color (its a 2x4gb 3000mhz cl15 kit twice, making 4x4gb), both of them are VER 5.20 Extra spec info: PSU - FSP Hexa+ 500 | GPU - GTX 1060.

So, the problem is when I use only 2 dimms from the same color It's working fine at 2933mhz, and when I mix 1 red and 1 black it boots for the third time trying and works after that, but when I use all 4, I can't boot into bios with 2933mhz, It's resetting to 2133 and when I boot into windows the system is unstable even with 2133 defaults, getting BSOD-s, system hangs, hardware failure.

So what I tried so far:

• Update bios | Downgrade bios | Modded bios and everything listed below with all bios versions
• Manually set the timings to 15-17-17-17-35 (extra 17 is because my mobo)
• Manually set DRAM Voltage to 1.350
• Try to fiddle with VPP_MEM Voltage
• Increasing VTDDR Voltage
• SoC voltage at 1.1v
• ProcODT at 60ohm
• CMD at 2T
• CLDO_VDDP at 965 - 975
• Memory interleaving mode channel
• Loosen timings to 16-18-18-18-40
• Increase DRAM Voltage to 1.380v to 1.400v
• Fiddle with other timings not being set by D.O.C.P. but being able to read out from SPD
• CPU LLC and SOC LLC tried from regular to extreme
• Try other frequencies like 2800mhz, It boots up but Is unstable in everything, just like the default 2133mhz
• Ran memtest with all of them individually, no problems

Any ideas what else can I do to make this even stable at least at 2133mhz?
Or is this some other issue.

Say you have two ram kit: A: A1 A2 and B: B1 B2 and the mobo has DIMM 1234 slot, try to put it like this,
1. DIMM1: A1 DIMM2: B1 DiMM3: A2: DIMM4: B2
2. DIMM1: A1 DIMM2: A2 DiMM3: B1: DIMM4: B2
Check individually if it works or not.

[yghrt]

Say you have two ram kit: A: A1 A2 and B: B1 B2 and the mobo has DIMM 1234 slot, try to put it like this,
1. DIMM1: A1 DIMM2: B1 DiMM3: A2: DIMM4: B2
2. DIMM1: A1 DIMM2: A2 DiMM3: B1: DIMM4: B2
Check individually if it works or not.

Already done, current one seems stable enough right now, no BSOD for an hour, but I cant say for sure, maybe a cold boot and It's unstable again.
Now it's like this DIMM1: A1 DIMM2: B1 DiMM3: B2: DIMM4: A2.

Currently this is the setting:
Applied Optimized defaults
mem freq 2800mhz
DRAM voltage 1.380v
timings loosen to 16-18-18-18-40-60
CMD 1T
ProcODT 48ohm
VTDDR increased
SoC voltage 1.1v


Also a new information is that the ram version 5.20 is bad for ryzen, and I should get a version at least 5.30, can someone confirm this?

[yghrt]

Already done, current one seems stable enough right now, no BSOD for an hour, but I cant say for sure, maybe a cold boot and It's unstable again.
Now it's like this DIMM1: A1 DIMM2: B1 DiMM3: B2: DIMM4: A2.

Currently this is the setting:
Applied Optimized defaults
mem freq 2800mhz
DRAM voltage 1.380v
timings loosen to 16-18-18-18-40-60
CMD 1T
ProcODT 48ohm
VTDDR increased
SoC voltage 1.1v


Also a new information is that the ram version 5.20 is bad for ryzen, and I should get a version at least 5.30, can someone confirm this?

Yes, As i thought, It's still not stable like this, getting crashes.

[Equinox187]

Hey community,

I have an issue with my two slightly different memory kits in this MOBO, I'm using CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 and CMK8GX4M2B3000C15R where the only difference is the color (its a 2x4gb 3000mhz cl15 kit twice, making 4x4gb), both of them are VER 5.20 Extra spec info: PSU - FSP Hexa+ 500 | GPU - GTX 1060.

So, the problem is when I use only 2 dimms from the same color It's working fine at 2933mhz, and when I mix 1 red and 1 black it boots for the third time trying and works after that, but when I use all 4, I can't boot into bios with 2933mhz, It's resetting to 2133 and when I boot into windows the system is unstable even with 2133 defaults, getting BSOD-s, system hangs, hardware failure.

So what I tried so far:

• Update bios | Downgrade bios | Modded bios and everything listed below with all bios versions
• Manually set the timings to 15-17-17-17-35 (extra 17 is because my mobo)
• Manually set DRAM Voltage to 1.350
• Try to fiddle with VPP_MEM Voltage
• Increasing VTDDR Voltage
• SoC voltage at 1.1v
• ProcODT at 60ohm
• CMD at 2T
• CLDO_VDDP at 965 - 975
• Memory interleaving mode channel
• Loosen timings to 16-18-18-18-40
• Increase DRAM Voltage to 1.380v to 1.400v
• Fiddle with other timings not being set by D.O.C.P. but being able to read out from SPD
• CPU LLC and SOC LLC tried from regular to extreme
• Try other frequencies like 2800mhz, It boots up but Is unstable in everything, just like the default 2133mhz
• Ran memtest with all of them individually, no problems

Any ideas what else can I do to make this even stable at least at 2133mhz?
Or is this some other issue.

4 stick memory configs suck for ryzen more so when they are dual rank ram, the ram you have chosen is dual rank this means that in a 4 dimm system it really is only designed to work at 1866MHz, I have seen some squeese more with some work but not a whole lot more if i where you i would reset to optomised defaults then leave everything as default then manually set the clock to 1866MHz and then boot and test stability and if stable then start stepping up MHz untill it crashes then step up voltage, but i suspect you will not get far as 4 dimm dual rank suck for high speed ram. I kinda hate to say it it would have been better and cheaper if you had bought a set of 2 8gig sticks.

[yghrt]

4 stick memory configs suck for ryzen more so when they are dual rank ram, the ram you have chosen is dual rank this means that in a 4 dimm system it really is only designed to work at 1866MHz, I have seen some squeese more with some work but not a whole lot more if i where you i would reset to optomised defaults then leave everything as default then manually set the clock to 1866MHz and then boot and test stability and if stable then start stepping up MHz untill it crashes then step up voltage, but i suspect you will not get far as 4 dimm dual rank suck for high speed ram. I kinda hate to say it it would have been better and cheaper if you had bought a set of 2 8gig sticks.

I checked if It's really Dual rank, but no, It's Single rank, 4 dimm single rank memory with 2133mhz base spd, and is overclockable to 3000mhz.

[Equinox187]

I checked if It's really Dual rank, but no, It's Single rank, 4 dimm single rank memory with 2133mhz base spd, and is overclockable to 3000mhz.

I would check all of them to make sure as the reason i said that is my friend had the same red ram as you but his was dual rank and the second kit he later got was single rank, same model numbers etc but different batch yet not the same. In any case overclock speed is something you will not always get espesually in a 4 dimm setup so i would still reset to default and down clock to 1866 and test from there.

[celab]

use thaiphoon to read them --> http://www.softnology.biz/files.html

[BtheNewB]

Hey community,

I have an issue with my two slightly different memory kits in this MOBO, I'm using CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 and CMK8GX4M2B3000C15R where the only difference is the color (its a 2x4gb 3000mhz cl15 kit twice, making 4x4gb), both of them are VER 5.20 Extra spec info: PSU - FSP Hexa+ 500 | GPU - GTX 1060.

So, the problem is when I use only 2 dimms from the same color It's working fine at 2933mhz, and when I mix 1 red and 1 black it boots for the third time trying and works after that, but when I use all 4, I can't boot into bios with 2933mhz, It's resetting to 2133 and when I boot into windows the system is unstable even with 2133 defaults, getting BSOD-s, system hangs, hardware failure.

So what I tried so far:

• Update bios | Downgrade bios | Modded bios and everything listed below with all bios versions
• Manually set the timings to 15-17-17-17-35 (extra 17 is because my mobo)
• Manually set DRAM Voltage to 1.350
• Try to fiddle with VPP_MEM Voltage
• Increasing VTDDR Voltage
• SoC voltage at 1.1v
• ProcODT at 60ohm
• CMD at 2T
• CLDO_VDDP at 965 - 975
• Memory interleaving mode channel
• Loosen timings to 16-18-18-18-40
• Increase DRAM Voltage to 1.380v to 1.400v
• Fiddle with other timings not being set by D.O.C.P. but being able to read out from SPD
• CPU LLC and SOC LLC tried from regular to extreme
• Try other frequencies like 2800mhz, It boots up but Is unstable in everything, just like the default 2133mhz
• Ran memtest with all of them individually, no problems

Any ideas what else can I do to make this even stable at least at 2133mhz?
Or is this some other issue.

So we can agree that you do not have a matched 4X4 kit. That being critical most of the time.
Manufacturers make up matched kits for a reason. These matched kits ensure that the same batch of memory chips are at play on all the modules. These batches of mem chips are sourced from a chip manufacturer and have a very high probability of being identical.
Just like we all know about CPU lotteries when it comes to OC, the same applies with the memory lottery where you see the same part number but the batches are not the same and the results are a lottery. It may work but chances are it won't.
The only way to ascertain what your possible max OC will be with 4 mem slots filled is to test with a 4 X 4 matched memory kit.
Thats unfortunately the reality of the memory OC game.