Been lurking around this sub for a bit since I finally got a decent pre-built PC from Walmart about two months back. Being a Walmart prebuilt, it came with a 2x16gb set of 6000mhz CL48 XPG sticks, and after doing some brief browsing, I found various posts recommending 6000mhz-ish Cl30-ish as the sweet spot for a 9800x3d.
Being the optimist, I decided to go on the slightly riskier side and sprung for a 6400mhz Cl30 G.Skill kit that seemed like a good buy at just about $15 over the 6000mhz CL30. After a crash course in overclocking out of curiosity, I thought I got to a relatively stable configuration of being able to run 6400mhz 1:1 at CL30 with an FCLK of 2133 for about a month. That was until updating my AsRock BIOS to 3.40 this morning and finally buying a license for and running Karhu after restoring my configuration, which started throwing errors after hitting about 27%.
Spent the last little bit tinkering to see what COULD run to at least 100% and settled on the above with 6200 1:1 at Cl30. Wondering if there's any insights here for a novice to learn from, or if the silicon was just not in my favor.