Shadepiece Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 Just picked up an i7-12700k on sale at Best Buy yesterday. Decided that it was now or never to pull the trigger on the big upgrade! This is in preparation for VR later this year. Had to get a new motherboard to fit the new CPU, and needed to jump up to 32GB of RAM. After some heat issues in my current build I am going for an All-in-one liquid cooler from Corsair, and with how big DCS is getting I picked up a new M.2 drive solely for DCS. I think this set up will get me DCS VR ready! It'll probably be a while before I grab the headset, but I am going to enjoy the improved performance until then! New Parts! -Corsair H100X AIO 240mm liquid cooler -Intel i7-12700k LGA 1700 -WD 1TB M.2 drive -Ripjaws DDR4 4000mhz 32GB -Asus H670 Prime D4 mobo Erhardt, Butzzell, Flyboy and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J5_Hotlead Posted April 17, 2022 Report Share Posted April 17, 2022 Sweet upgrades! Let us know how it runs! Erhardt, Greif, Lipfert and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadepiece Posted May 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 Well I am officially up and running with the new build. Everything is awesome for the most part. I cannot seem to get my RAM to stay stable at anything over 3100mhz though... As they are rated for 4000mhz, and the mobo can handle DDR5 at 5000+mhz I feel like I should be able to get more out of the RAM. The CPU is running nicely with good temps at 5Ghz though, so definitely seeing better performance in DCS. Drive cloning was a real pain, but I feel like I am a damn expert now. M.2 drive is wildly fast, so it was well worth it. Ought to be able to clear out some old files, and make a lot of room for games and recording files. Any ideas on what the RAM issue might be? Erhardt, Greif, Klaiber and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 Have you moved them to various slots, checked the sticks one at a time guessing more than one stick Erhardt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadepiece Posted May 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 They are in A1 and B1 slots. It's two sticks of 16GB each. All the RAM is showing as active, so not an issue there. I was wondering if it's a voltage or timing issue in the BIOS? Erhardt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 Should be able to find a couple of programs if you haven’t already that will run a good stress test and make sure that there is an a problem since you’re not getting the megahertz out of the ram that you should. Erhardt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxy Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 memtest86...is a ram stress tester program. Shade are you XMP'ing, or manually OC'ing to 4000? XMP should be stable. Are you Blue Screen'ing? (Just went through a mess with my rig, NO BSOD...equaled PSU) Erhardt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadepiece Posted May 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2022 On 5/1/2022 at 11:10 AM, Moxy said: memtest86...is a ram stress tester program. Shade are you XMP'ing, or manually OC'ing to 4000? XMP should be stable. Are you Blue Screen'ing? (Just went through a mess with my rig, NO BSOD...equaled PSU) XMP won't even post!! That why I am confused. I set XMP 1, but then manually slowed the RAM to 3000mhz. I will checkout meanest though! Erhardt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Posted May 3, 2022 Report Share Posted May 3, 2022 PSU What is it rated for? Vonrd and Erhardt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxy Posted May 3, 2022 Report Share Posted May 3, 2022 If your xmp'ing, you shouldn't, be able to manually adjust timings.. (bios would over ride to xmp profile?) You could Run the built in windows memory test, for a faster test than mem test. Yes you could have a bad stix. But the aspect that your under clocking to post is wacked. Default Bios, with xmp should post! I keep thinking the cpu to mem strap. If your manually adjusting the mem timings, that strap ratio could muck things up Default Bios, 1 stix, a/b test xmp, then the other stix Every thing is an a/b test, pain in the ars Hope you win Mox Shadepiece, Erhardt and Snaggle 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadepiece Posted May 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2022 That's a great idea, Mox! I'll have to try it to identify the issue. My PSU is a fully modular EVGA one, and it's an 800watt Gold 2 if my memory serves. It should be far more than needed. Snaggle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipfert Posted May 5, 2022 Report Share Posted May 5, 2022 On 5/3/2022 at 11:41 PM, Moxy said: If your xmp'ing, you shouldn't, be able to manually adjust timings.. (bios would over ride to xmp profile?) You could Run the built in windows memory test, for a faster test than mem test. Yes you could have a bad stix. But the aspect that your under clocking to post is wacked. Default Bios, with xmp should post! I keep thinking the cpu to mem strap. If your manually adjusting the mem timings, that strap ratio could muck things up Default Bios, 1 stix, a/b test xmp, then the other stix Every thing is an a/b test, pain in the ars Hope you win Mox Do what Mox says, plus when you pull each stick double check and make sure it's the same (they may have grab the wrong one in error). S! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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