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Review on Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Desktop Gaming Memory 8GB CL16 BL8G32C16U4W (White) by Sam Bauer

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Many setting changes may be required to achieve the stated speed.

I'm working on uploading screenshots from my example. In short, good RAM at a bargain price. OCd, up to 4133) in the Asus ROG Strix X570-F with Ryzen 7 3700X. Both sets of RAM had the same CAS latency of 16. After installing new RAM in all possible configurations, the system will not publish. Speed. I did some research and found that XMP needs to be enabled and is called DOCP in Asus terminology and can be found in the BIOS settings under "AI Overclock Tuner". Switched on and all settings are automatically reset to the factory settings. BIG! But the system stopped publishing news again. With more research (note that the FCLOCK rating should be exactly half the RAM speed) I was able to find a compromise. By disabling DOCP and setting FCLOCK to 1766Mhz, manual RAM speed to 3533Mhz and DRAM voltage to 1,350 we got the system to release and boot and Windows shows this speed (3533). It's less than the advertised speed (not much) and way below my original OC speed, but I have to do it now. I only wish Ballistix Elite had a 32GB (2x16) configuration and I would spend money on it.

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