I will briefly discuss how I set up my 4-up (four sticks) Dominator Titanium memory on my motherboard. Depending on the motherboard, you may experience trouble booting up with four sticks of this memory, as I did.
In this PC setup, my motherboard is an X870 Aorus Elite Wi-Fi 7, with a Ryzen 9 9950X processor installed. The latest BIOS has been installed on it.
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The first mistake I made was forgetting to reset the BIOS before installing the 4 new memory sticks. It may not be necessary to do this, but setting up the motherboard BIOS to default greatly reduces the chances of issues when installing new memory, or at least for me.
Because I forgot to reset the BIOS after installing the four new memory sticks, the PC would not boot into Windows. I entered the BIOS and attempted the XMP 1 memory profile (although I am using an AMD processor, the memory I purchased was Intel-approved, not AMD-approved). I saved this setting, but the PC still refused to boot into Windows. I then tried the XMP 2 memory profile. Once again, the PC refused to boot into Windows. The memory timings are printed on each memory module, so I powered down the PC, removed one memory stick, and wrote the timings. I reinstalled the memory stick and made sure every module was installed properly.
I turned on the PC and entered the BIOS. In the BIOS memory settings, I changed them to the settings I had written down. The CAS# Latency (CL) was set to 36, and the RAS to CAS delay (tRCD) was also set to 36. The RAS Precharge (tRP) was adjusted to 36, and the Cycle Time (tRAS) was set to 76. The only other change needed was to set the memory multiplier to 60, as the default setting is 48. A multiplier of 60 allows for 6000MHz, compared to the default setting of 4800MHz. The memory used is 6000MHz.
Once I made these changes, I saved the settings in the BIOS. The PC booted into Windows without any issues.
It should be noted that using 2 memory modules will provide greater stability than using 4 memory modules. Memory controllers are built into the processor and memory stability is heavily dependent on the memory controller in the processor. If you want to overclock your PC in any way, 2 sticks of memory will provide greater stability and are preferred.
The memory kit used during this process is: DOMINATOR® TITANIUM RGB 64GB (4x16GB) DDR5 DRAM 6000MT/s CL36 Intel XMP Memory Kit — White
I hope this simple guide helps those who are experiencing similar behavior on their PC build.
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