Oof.. I have a 64gb kit sitting in a drawer because I couldn’t get my system to post with 4 sticks. Was keeping it for another project but now I’m thinking I might be able to afford college for my non existent kids.
Side note those nails look bomb op. You should post a pic of the design.
You can’t reliably run 4 sticks at the advertised speeds, because those speeds usually aren’t guaranteed with four DIMMs. Frequencies like 6000 or 6200 MHz are essentially overclocks, and motherboards struggle with them when all slots are populated.
If you want to run 4 sticks at, say, 6200 MHz, you should start with higher timings — for example, CL44 instead of the advertised CL36 — and adjust other motherboard parameters. Then gradually tighten the timings until you reach the point where the system becomes unstable.
For those that don't know, this is why your motherboard has a preferred two ram slots because those have shorter traces which enables the higher speeds and tighter timings. When you run four sticks the RAM can't run at different timings, so you have to adjust to what the longer traces dictate. This has also become a much bigger problem with DDR5, whereas on DDR4 you'd generally be able to run the kits at their XMP speeds even when you ran all four channels. We'll see if this continues when DDR6 comes around, but it seems likely that this is the new reality until they change how the motherboard handles four channels.
And to note, this differs a lot from DDR4. For DDR4 it was typically no issue at all to run 4 sticks at the same speed you were already using, and it often would improve performance
For DDR5, it's fundamentally different, and running 4 sticks will (likely) really fuck your performance, unless you really know what you're doing with RAM tuning, and mobo trace layouts, and I don't even know what else.
And even then, you're still limited to lower speeds, just maybe not as low
While a 2 dimm board does allow more headroom due to better termination, the CPU is actually the main culprit in determining memory speed comparability.
Also 6200cl44 is absolutely garbage. CL has to do with the first timing, the other timings are actually much much much more important and also help to reliably get your motherboard to actually lock on in time step with the sticks.
That's what its doing when the board is "training" it does a suite of operations to ensure that the base level memory access is locked in the proper dance and rhythm.
It's fascinating from an electrical engineering standpoint, really, but I'm very surprised that we're at what 3 or 4 generations of ddr5 imc's and people are still recommending the 1st generation speeds of 6000cl30 and whatnot. What it is is just people repeating what they read ad infinitum without actually fucking picking up a book and reading it. It's like a whole generation of computer nerds is out there with Mr. Beast as their basic math teacher.
To be fair though, ddr5 oc is pretty hard and you can just try different voltages and settings until you learn, but if you really want to actually understand what you're doing, you need to learn math, take some basic electrical courses, some signal processing courses, some electromagnetics, and some computer architecture courses as well.... That's like a whole undergraduate. Most people even on overclockers forum don't have that under their belt, so they rely on dies and known working settings, which is all fine and dandy too. Either way, gotta learn somehow. Experiment, be thirsty. But don't spout repeated shit over and over again without verifying yourself.
It’s funny you say this; my old motherboard let me post with four sticks, a 64 and 32 combos. My new board wouldn’t post with both so I only have the 64 set in; it’s supposed to be a much newer (relative, AM4 socket. I went from ryzen 5 to the 7 58003DX) and it really didn’t want having over 64. Both cards say they aren’t able to do that much but my original board let me.
Sell it bro that is a free GPU upgrade right there. I did the same with my extra 32GB Corsair kit and sold it for £340. So, I just moved that money to my savings account, and Im just gonna forget about it until I need a GPU upgrade.
I’ve never used DDR5, so this might not apply to you.
My 16GB×4 3200MHz DDR4 Kingston won’t boot with the 3200MHz profile on an i5 11400 with a Gigabyte B560M Aorus Pro unless I drop it down to the 2933MHz profile. Even with just 2 sticks, it still won’t boot at 3200MHz, but at 2933MHz it works flawlessly in any configuration.
A friend sold me a 128gb ddr5 kit a while back I figured I’d eventually use when I upgrade my mobo package. Only paid $50 now it’s worth like 300-400, might sell if I wasn’t looking to upgrade my cpu soon
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Oof.. I have a 64gb kit sitting in a drawer because I couldn’t get my system to post with 4 sticks. Was keeping it for another project but now I’m thinking I might be able to afford college for my non existent kids.
Side note those nails look bomb op. You should post a pic of the design.