My ram situation is complicated since im running on a omel 40l motherboard (hana) , 2×8 default Kingston fury 3733 cl 19 + 2×8 corsair Vengeance pro 3200 cl16 that i got from my old pc.. ik mixing isn't good but i needed the extra 16 gigs for rivals. After a lot of hp shenanigans, i managed to get them both running on 3200mhz at 1.35v instead of the default 1.2 for my hp board.. but i knew i was leaving "some" performance behind. Now i upgraded to a 7900xt and my cpu is "hard" bottlenecking in 1440p marvel rivals (70-80 % gpu util) and i realized i should try improving my cpu.. leading me to realize my ram is actually running on cl 22??? Holy shit .
Can anyone tell me if i can actually tidy up the timings through experiment and online advice or should i just try to find 32 gigs of cl16 at 1.2v? I'd rather not spend the money tbh…
P.s: my cpu gets 15.5 in cb23 with -20 on bad cores and -16 on good cores, ~10.2k on timespy which is lower than average
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You just need to test settings tbh.. First, make a BIOS profile and save it (your stable OC), so you dont put all the settings again each time you reset the CMOS (like I did, rookie mistake).
Your limiter is your Corsair RAM. Can you go to 16cl in these settings? And lower the primary timings to 19 and see if it boots? (tRDCE/R and tRP to 20 first, and cl to 16). From my testing, its better to know the limits of your primary timings, the ones I mentionated before. So go as low as you can with them on 3400mhz. Then increasy to 3533 and test stability.
Once you are 100% those settings are stable, you can start to reduce the secondary timings. If you dont want to go that route, decrease tFAW to 16, tWR to 18. Or go to my profile and look at my RAM OC settings (the latest post). They could work for you, or not. But you dont lose anything trying, and I am pretty sure your Corsair has better dies than my F dies.
Save yourself some time and sell those kits in fb-marketplace new 32g 3600cl18 kits cost ~45$+ and you could prob tweak that kit to 3800 to draw max out of ur 58x
Your ram is running on bad timings because you mixed them. My HyperX Predator ram 2x8Gb ran at CL14 for example, my Corsair 32GB CL18 3600Mhz kit runs at CL 16-20-20-36 right now for example. Imo tweaking ur ram is either a week long hassle you gotta go thru with tons of memtesting or you just sell ur ram and buy a kit that actually works in harmony with itself.
My friend did the same as you but he just rather bought a new kit and gained insane FPS on his 5600X, he was running that CPU at 60% potential somehow… He only noticed after I asked why his cpu perf is so bad on the same game we play lmao, I had 5600X, 5800X and now 5800X3D. Also DDR4 default XMP is 1.35V and from 1.4V is where you get into the OC category.