Long story short, I was a pretty serious overclocker over a decade ago. Got busy with life and had a core 2 duo for almost a decade, then an FX for the past 6 or 7 years. Was actually UNDERvolting the FX down to barely 1v and running just over stock (Heresy).
Anyway, I upgraded my video card to a 2060 and then started reading about how bad the FX was gonna bottleneck it at 1440 and 1080.. so I decided time to upgrade my system.
Wound up getting a Ryzen 5, Asrock 470x Taichi and some Corsair LPX 2400 ram for a really good price. Board is... well damn. I've always been a budget overclocker friendly board user (you know, the 80-140$ boards that have all the bios features you need, but less frills and oftentimes needed aftermarket cooling added to components)… and this board is blowing me away. My last board (remember I wasn't OC'ing from a power perspective (cpu was drawing LESS than stock) at the time... MSI 970a g43) made my PSU rails look like a sumo wrestler was sitting on them and needed a fan added to the chipset just to run stock... On this board, every rail is within 1% of ideal and steady as a rock.
Anyway... So I've got this Black spreader Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz C16 8x2 kit. Came sealed (I think the seller had a build planned but ditched it for Intel so I got new parts for cheap). It defaulted to 3000mhz 16-18-18-38 and installed windows etc before I even looked at memory clocks and bios. It DOES ID as 2400 though....
So anyway, I found asrocks (Use our special factory tested overclocks customized for your ram) setting for 3200mhz... Thinking it was saying they recommended MY ram @ 3200mhz those settings, I enabled it... 3x fail, clears cmos… NOW I'm at 2400mhz. Realize that they were offering me the OVERCLOCKED settings they recommend for the STOCK 3200mhz set of this ram. Whatever. I'm up to 3133 and memtesting now @ 16-18-18-38-72 @ 1.35v, Looking like 3200mhz CL16 is definitely possible...
Question is... What dies have I got? Typhoon can't ID them... says Unknown Maker Unknown Chips.
CMK16GX4M2A2400C16
Also, anyone else got this ram... is it worthwhile trying to tune in the more involved settings? There's a lot more than I remember... We used to have 10-15 on the more flexible overclocking boards... now there are dozens. I'd rather not spend the time messing around in there and tweaking if I can avoid it... and when I tried using the Ryzen calculator with my board and assuming the weakest Hynix Chips they offered... it hung right before post... possibly because this board has some settings they don't cover which I left auto, possibly because these chips aren't the ones I guessed (and some of the settings it recommended were actually TIGHTENED vs stock @ 2400mhz timings...which seemed weird) but I don't know.
Edit: @1.35v 3200mhz 16-18-18-38-74 now Memtesting.
Anyway, I upgraded my video card to a 2060 and then started reading about how bad the FX was gonna bottleneck it at 1440 and 1080.. so I decided time to upgrade my system.
Wound up getting a Ryzen 5, Asrock 470x Taichi and some Corsair LPX 2400 ram for a really good price. Board is... well damn. I've always been a budget overclocker friendly board user (you know, the 80-140$ boards that have all the bios features you need, but less frills and oftentimes needed aftermarket cooling added to components)… and this board is blowing me away. My last board (remember I wasn't OC'ing from a power perspective (cpu was drawing LESS than stock) at the time... MSI 970a g43) made my PSU rails look like a sumo wrestler was sitting on them and needed a fan added to the chipset just to run stock... On this board, every rail is within 1% of ideal and steady as a rock.
Anyway... So I've got this Black spreader Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz C16 8x2 kit. Came sealed (I think the seller had a build planned but ditched it for Intel so I got new parts for cheap). It defaulted to 3000mhz 16-18-18-38 and installed windows etc before I even looked at memory clocks and bios. It DOES ID as 2400 though....
So anyway, I found asrocks (Use our special factory tested overclocks customized for your ram) setting for 3200mhz... Thinking it was saying they recommended MY ram @ 3200mhz those settings, I enabled it... 3x fail, clears cmos… NOW I'm at 2400mhz. Realize that they were offering me the OVERCLOCKED settings they recommend for the STOCK 3200mhz set of this ram. Whatever. I'm up to 3133 and memtesting now @ 16-18-18-38-72 @ 1.35v, Looking like 3200mhz CL16 is definitely possible...
Question is... What dies have I got? Typhoon can't ID them... says Unknown Maker Unknown Chips.
CMK16GX4M2A2400C16
Also, anyone else got this ram... is it worthwhile trying to tune in the more involved settings? There's a lot more than I remember... We used to have 10-15 on the more flexible overclocking boards... now there are dozens. I'd rather not spend the time messing around in there and tweaking if I can avoid it... and when I tried using the Ryzen calculator with my board and assuming the weakest Hynix Chips they offered... it hung right before post... possibly because this board has some settings they don't cover which I left auto, possibly because these chips aren't the ones I guessed (and some of the settings it recommended were actually TIGHTENED vs stock @ 2400mhz timings...which seemed weird) but I don't know.
Edit: @1.35v 3200mhz 16-18-18-38-74 now Memtesting.
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