Hi guys, I’m new to this RAM OC stuff but I’ve been ‘somewhat’ successful in overclocking my 5800X3D to 2000 FCLK and my 3600mhz GSkill bdie ram to 4000mhz for that 1:1. I tried 1900/3800mhz and my pc refuses to boot at all without clearing CMOS but anything above 1900 boots.
I’ve upped the DRAM voltage to 1.55-1.6V and gotten timings of 14-14-14-34/15-15-15-35/16-16-16-36 all to pass the AIDA64 stability test for ~30 mins each without any crashes/BSODs. But when I open HWmonitor64 and scroll down to the WHEAs tab, it’ll be 2k errors for just that 30min period.
Are my ram timings wrong or incomplete? Because I haven’t touched any of the values past those top 4 values and set it to 1T – the others are just on auto.
Or am I pushing it with 2000 FCLK/4000mhz?
What should I trust more? AIDA not failing the stability test or take the WHEA errors more seriously? Tbh I’d like to keep the 4000mhz CL14-15, my fps has jumped by ~30 fps in MW2 (finally stable 200fps) and ~15 in WZ2 (stable 160-165fps)
Any suggestions on the way forwards? Would stabilising the timings get rid of the errors or reduce the clock speeds?
5800X3D / 3070 / 3600mhz CL14 stock
Gaming temps: CPU peaks at 70 Celsius, DIMMs always under 40 Celsius
AIDA temps are higher
https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820374093?item=N82E16820374093
https://imgur.com/a/yWAW7M4
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Hint : I’m biased as I’m the dev of OCCT.
I have a lot of praise for lots of stress tests: linpack, prime, karhu, testmem5… They are all valid options and working from good to awesome.
But aida64 isn’t a valid test anymore sadly. It didn’t evolve much for quite some time, so I think you should consider others (not necessarily mine !). It’s a tad sad since I remember the Everest days…
That being said, WHEA could be caused by your memory overclock, or a faulty driver. The easy way to know this is to remove your overclock, do the same thing, look at the error count. It’s also spitting out whea ? It’s not your overclock. It is ? Well, time to tweak it again.
Also, golden rule of stability testing : always trust the failing test. Not the one that pass.
Id give up on 2000 flck, you probably will never get that whea free.
It’s unfortunate that you have the 1900/3800 hole but id settle for 3733 to prevent headaches.
One thing you could do is use 3733 ram, bump the bclk to 102 and then you’ll get 3808, that wont be a whea nightmare and its over 1900.
>I tried 1900/3800mhz and my pc refuses to boot at all without clearing CMOS but anything above 1900 boots.
Worth trying 1866/3733 in that case. I think you might simply be running into IF instability there at 2000/4000.