dram light turn on sometimes on my motherboard

[eidairaman1]

Sell the board and get a X670 Taichi

 

[ir_cow]

Sell the board and get a X670 Taichi

Also never update the BIOS.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Sell the board and get a X670 Taichi

Also never update the BIOS.

 

[Shrek]

His CPU is now safe against over-voltage; I'd say that alone was a worthy outcome.

 

[khjhpopasa]

Gigabyte 100% supports that memory kit because it is validated by them and on the QVL list. However, AMD does not.

Anything above DDR5-5200 for Ryzen 7000 series is considered a user overclock and not supported by AMD.

Max Memory Speed: 2x1R DDR5-5200

https://www.amd.com/en/product/12166

Trust the advice given above!

I encouraged a friend of mine to jump on the AM5 bandwagon and he picked up a 6400Mhz/32CL Kingston Renegade kit (we thought we got a great deal but far from it). It seemed to work fine until launching games resulted to constant restarts and BF2042 was stuttering like crazy before freezing up and on top sometimes the system wasn't posting after exiting BIOS. Tried a bunch of stuff but nothing worked for him until he dialed down/selected a lower freq preset to 5600Mhz which worked perfectly fine. We were supposed to run higher frequencies or presets and each time stress test, run games, etc.... but he had enough with the first round of tests and settled with 5600Mhz.

Whether its QVL supported or not, 6400Mhz doesn't seem to have been rigorously tested for some of these boards. Or we have to wander what tests were they running to determine seamless compatibility.

More importantly, there are new developments you should be aware of where BIOS settings are causing problems and burning chips up. The guys above are clearly warning you to avoid damaging your system (esp. CPU, mobo and memory). AMD has identified the problem (or some of the problems) and have issued a patch for board manufacturers to provide BIOS updates. Everyone on AM5 is encouraged to commit to these BIOS updates. Set everything on default, update your BIOS and settle with a less problematic memory profile (~6000mhz).

Maybe OP will understand with a different analogy:

If you can lift X amount of weight without issues and I start adding an incremental percent of that weight every 5 seconds, you'll still be able to keep lifting (you won't collapse immediately), but after some time, the weight will be too much and eventually your muscles will get weak and then collapse. That's what is happening with your RAM: the increased speed is too much weight for your PC muscles (board/CPU) and eventually they collapse, and worst case, they'll completely break.

6400 + AMD = no, you're not doing this especially not on a low cost motherboard like yours, sorry. listen to us and stop trying to force it before you set your CPU on fire.

1. Update BIOS so you can get AGESA to the latest version (specifically to prevent a fire)
2. Run 6000 MT/s *at most*. Higher doesn't work reliably even on high-end AM5 motherboards. Yours is not;
3. If you're so bothered, optimize your subtimings and try to get CAS latency lower... but then again if you were bothered you'd not buy a B650 of all things

BTW, what drove you to build this setup? It's totally weird: you bought the slowest socket AM5 CPU currently available and one of the cheapest motherboards for this socket, but want to push 6400 MT/s memory and run a 7900 XTX. You should have purchased a cheaper memory kit and a 7700X instead. Or even purchased the 7800X3D and a 7900 XT, if you insist on sticking to AMD+AMD, I guarantee your experience would be better in practically every game out there.

As for the reason your DRAM light comes up: you're pushing unstable settings and CPU memory training is failing. I bet you load any memory tester and it's going to spit out errors within a minute.

You can see that he use 6400mhz 32cl (smae like me) on AM5 motherboard

Maybe I got issue with motherbaord?

 

[Dr. Dro]

You can see that he use 6400mhz 32cl (smae like me) on AM5 motherboard

Maybe I got issue with motherbaord?

This is an older video with an earlier AGESA which allowed more SoC voltage (at the risk of potentially damaging the hardware) and they are using a much better motherboard.

It is not in your interest to have dead hardware, is it? Then keep your voltages within the safe range, and use timings which are applicable to them that your motherboard is apt to handle.

 

[AusWolf]

I did undervolt to my cpu by 35% for all cores (negative) it can be the problem? (when my pc turn on and I check cpu it work well even on 100%)
So what I can be the reason?

It can be. Also, 6400 MHz can be a little bit too much for Zen 4.

You can see that he use 6400mhz 32cl (smae like me) on AM5 motherboard

Maybe I got issue with motherbaord?

Just because someone did, it doesn't mean you can do too. As someone said above, the official support is 5200 MHz. Anything above depends on skill and luck (mostly luck).

 

[ir_cow]

This thread is still going? Soon a new one will show up saying "my computer doesn't turn on" lol

 

[khjhpopasa]

This is an older video with an earlier AGESA which allowed more SoC voltage (at the risk of potentially damaging the hardware) and they are using a much better motherboard.

It is not in your interest to have dead hardware, is it? Then keep your voltages within the safe range, and use timings which are applicable to them that your motherboard is apt to handle.

This thread is still going? Soon a new one will show up saying "my computer doesn't turn on" lol

It can be. Also, 6400 MHz can be a little bit too much for Zen 4.


Just because someone did, it doesn't mean you can do too. As someone said above, the official support is 5200 MHz. Anything above depends on skill and luck (mostly luck).

I change to 6000mhz because 6400Mhz make my pc crush.
But I belive it because I have a problem in my motherboard, and doesn't about speed of ram.

 

[AusWolf]

I change to 6000mhz because 6400Mhz make my pc crush.
But I belive it because I have a problem in my motherboard, and doesn't about speed of ram.

What makes you think so? Do you still have the problem?

If so, what is your IF clock? (CPU-Z can tell you under the "Memory" tab, labelled as "Uncore") Also, what is your SoC voltage?

 

[ir_cow]

Well step one was to get you to lower the frequency. Can't troubleshoot other problems without first fixing the obvious one.

 

[eidairaman1]

It can be. Also, 6400 MHz can be a little bit too much for Zen 4.


Just because someone did, it doesn't mean you can do too. As someone said above, the official support is 5200 MHz. Anything above depends on skill and luck (mostly luck).

Yup needs secondary timings and resistance adjustments in the uefi (my sig rig have them)

Well step one was to get you to lower the frequency. Can't troubleshoot other problems without first fixing the obvious one.

Yeah he needs to start with 3200-3600, most of the troubles come from "noobs" automatically overclocking and not verifying stuff is running sound at stock.

 

[Dr. Dro]

he needs to start with 3200-3600, most of the troubles come from "noobs" automatically overclocking and not verifying stuff is running sound at stock.

It's DDR5 mate. 6000 is the sweet spot, no point overthinking it. Zen 4 isn't reliably capable of more.

The OP has a foolish "I paid for it and using it all I shall" stance.

 

[khjhpopasa]

What makes you think so? Do you still have the problem?

If so, what is your IF clock? (CPU-Z can tell you under the "Memory" tab, labelled as "Uncore") Also, what is your SoC voltage?

Basic as default.

what is doing? more people told me to change it

 

[AusWolf]

Basic as default.

What does that mean? Every motherboard sets a slightly different default.

 

[ir_cow]

If you don't enabled XMP/EXPO it will be 4800 or 5200 for 2x single rank. Depends on the motherboard which is picked. Dual-rank or 4 DIMMs will be 3600 usually.

If the op is still having stability problems. Disabled XMP/EXPO entirely and run some stability tests. If it passes run xmp 5600 and try again.