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RAM instability in any XMP Profile


My current setup is the following:

CPU: Intel i7-12700KF

Motherboard: Asus Prime Z690-A

RAM: G.Skill 32GB Ram DDR5 5600MHz CL36 F5-5600J3636C16GX2 (https://www.gskill.com/specification/165/374/1640229125/F5-5600J3636C16GX2-TZ5RS-F5-5600J3636C16GA2-TZ5RS-Specification)

GPU: (does not really matter for this but) Palit GameRock RTX 3070 Ti

PSU: Seasonic 650W Platinium 80+

I cannot enable any XMP profile (XMP 1, XMP 2, XMP Tweaked does not boot at all) without having ram instability issues. My ram is running completely fine at 4800 MHz, tested in MemTest86 and Prime95. While running these benchmarks with XMP 1 or XMP 2 enabled, I will get ram errors in MemTest86 and rounding errors in Prime95.

I have no clue how to manually tune the settings from those profiles to be able to run my ram at 5600 MHz. Note that the system is booting only with XMP 1 and XMP 2.
I've seen people saying that I should up the RAM voltage to 1.35V, however on the website of the RAM it is said that the ram should be run at 1.20V, so I am pretty much afraid to raise it that high.

Any tips ?

1 Comment

  1. DZCreeper

    If you have the sticks in slots 2+4 I would assume the kit is just faulty.

    1.2V is the XMP default on that kit. 1.35V would probably help stability, but again I would just treat the kit as faulty at that point. 150mV extra is not margin of error.

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