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MSI B550 Tomahawk RAM Issue

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My son's computer had some issues and I needed to buy him a new platform. I went with AM4 because his monitor is 4k and he does not need the latest and greatest CPU to get good frames at 4k.

I purchased a 5700x and a MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk for a very good price and grabbed a couple of sticks of Corsair 3200 RAM.

First, the RAM is not on the QVL. So my effort may be fruitless. Neither of the aXMP profiles work. I went with the MSI memory try it feature and it booted at 3200mhz. But it was not stable and crashed in some games.

Most of my issues with memory impact the ability to boot. Since it will boot does that mean I may have some success manually overclocking the RAM?

I have not done a lot of manual memory overclocking as most of my chips have been Intel. Is it worth trying to make it work if not on the QVL?

I know that I should have looked at the QVL first, but I assumed AMD's RAM compatibility issues were gone by the Ryzen 5xxx generation.

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
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System Name Ryzen5900X
Processor AMD Ryzen 5900X
Motherboard Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC
Cooling NZXT Kraken X62
Memory 4x G.Skill F4-3600C17D-8GTZ
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon RX 6800XT Midnight Black
Please run zentimings and make a screenshot:

Can you confirm all Corsair sticks are the same version number?
 
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Please run zentimings and make a screenshot:

Can you confirm all Corsair sticks are the same version number?
Yes, the sticks were part of a 16gb kit.

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Please run zentimings and make a screenshot:

Can you confirm all Corsair sticks are the same version number?
Well as you can see from the screenshot, I'm an idiot. It's running at 3200. I would have sworn CPUz was showing 2133.
 
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Memory 4x G.Skill F4-3600C17D-8GTZ
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon RX 6800XT Midnight Black
Did you configure those timings by hand? MSI "memory try it" will likely not work for your kit due the 16-20-20-38 timings. Which version is your Corsair kit?
 
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