Barkley said:
Wow that's an expensive motherboard. Yeah it's most likely BIOS settings, Enabling XMP in your bios may help. Apparently it's pretty standard for DDR4 ram to default to lower clocks (2133mhz / 2400mhz) Some dude on a forum - "RAM typically has several profiles built into it's SPD tables and will pick the default one automatically unless you go and enable XMP, my 3200 RAM set itself to 2133 initially. I enabled XMP and got 3200 but it was unstable so I set it down to 2933 and all is good." |
| JEMC said: I hope you can fix your RAM problem, haxxiy. You could also check if MSI has launched a new BIOS update, just in case. |
Both good points.
With my recent Gigabyte build the bios was new ish, but it wouldn't allow XMP initially and was set at 2400MHz. I hadn't messed with the bios all that much initially either. When I started tinkering more with it, I noticed it seemed bugged. Graphics were a little glitchy on certain page settings, mouse would freeze at times. The first time I went to update the bios, it froze just before I clicked the final update selection. Worked the second time and after the update everything was as it should be. No more problems. XMP worked afterwards at 2933MHz as it should.
My old Asus P5N-E SLI wouldn't fully boot into Windows the first time when I added 2 more sticks to fill all 4 slots. After a reset it worked though. Ended up reading that was fairly normal for that board apparently when you filled all 4 slots.
Not sure if all boards run the RAM slower initially, but it's pretty common for most to do so in general.
