Question Asus B550M-K + R5 3600 refusing to OC generic ram with Hynix chips

Shivansps

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Now here is the thing before anyone says anything about these rams sticks. Yes, they are cheap ram that has Hynix chips on them, i originally got them and ive been using on my other two PCs, a 3000G + Asus A320M-K and a 2400G + Asus B450I-Gaming, so i have a total of 4x8GB DDR4-2666 sticks. So i tried to OC them for the first time, whiout doing anything, on my B450I-Gaming with the 2400G i set them to 3200Mhz with everything on auto, to my suprise, they work, not only that, they are stable, and the auto voltage still reads 1.2V what is very very suprising, so i went ahead, 3466mhz, still on 1.2v it is not stable now, but it is still stable enoght to run a few benchmarks without issue.
Ok i tryied the same on the A320M-K, with the same results... so at this point im thinking, that these rams may actually be better than my 2x8 3200 kit ive been using on my main pc with the 3600, and i have 32GB here.

Buuut it does not work, ive been completely unable to run these memory stick at anything that is not 2666 on the B550M-K and the 3600... and all motherboards are Asus. It does not allows me to go to older bios to try so i cant do much.
 

Iron Woode

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Now here is the thing before anyone says anything about these rams sticks. Yes, they are cheap ram that has Hynix chips on them, i originally got them and ive been using on my other two PCs, a 3000G + Asus A320M-K and a 2400G + Asus B450I-Gaming, so i have a total of 4x8GB DDR4-2666 sticks. So i tried to OC them for the first time, whiout doing anything, on my B450I-Gaming with the 2400G i set them to 3200Mhz with everything on auto, to my suprise, they work, not only that, they are stable, and the auto voltage still reads 1.2V what is very very suprising, so i went ahead, 3466mhz, still on 1.2v it is not stable now, but it is still stable enoght to run a few benchmarks without issue.
Ok i tryied the same on the A320M-K, with the same results... so at this point im thinking, that these rams may actually be better than my 2x8 3200 kit ive been using on my main pc with the 3600, and i have 32GB here.

Buuut it does not work, ive been completely unable to run these memory stick at anything that is not 2666 on the B550M-K and the 3600... and all motherboards are Asus. It does not allows me to go to older bios to try so i cant do much.
did you try 2966? I have good modules but they can't run at their rated speed (3600) in my Asrock B450 ITX board. They run fine at 2966.
 

legolas_tk

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What is the model of the RAM? Usually motherboard manufacturer has memory QVL that they tested and approve to work with DOCP. If it is not in the QVL, the DOCP profile can not be expected. You might have to lower the DRAM frequency a little bit. Make sure to setup DRAM voltage to 1.35V
 
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