Ryzen 1800X and RAM 3200 MHz Issues

To be honest after working on AMD ryzen, I would return that ram and go with 2400mhz. Your not going to get it to run reliably at that speed till maybe 6 months from now.

As Jossrik said, MSI is doing a great job, getting RAM compatible (and also making those XMP work). Asus on the otherhand seems to be taking it's sweet time. Upping the ram voltages has worked for me as well, sometimes, but as always especially with Asus, once you go 4 sticks instead of 2 all bets are off.

So I'm sorry i'm getting to this so late, but I have been down this road, a lot, with trial BIOS setups and tweaking every configurable setting manually, and let me say this:

Your ram is configured to work at 3200mhz. If you haven't got it to work yet let me give you what I would do, as someone who got it to work on version 1.2 bios when it wasn't on a QVL list for MSI, now that it is simple. Use version 1.5 bios
For others reading this, your QVL list (approved and tested RAM with speed index is here: http://

OK here would be my plan:

1) clear CMOS (should be clear if you put a clean bios update on there if not, clear it)
2) take your CPU clock setting and your RAM settings to auto across the board. (You can change it back later)
3) Change power plan to performance in Windows (no need to use ryzen power plan its tagged to a crazy buggy chipset driver with windows creators
4) boot your computer 1, 2 or 3 times with memory at stock and put it under a little load and try to break it, forget prime or aida or whatever, pull up a game, get 20-30 chrome windows playing youtube, get 20-30 firefox windows, I mean literally put it to 100% ram usage and try to freak it out on flat stock, while that's running go have a break and let it run for a bit.
-step 4 is important because you will find buggy code in your system where it may throw an exception in normal circumstances, you need to find those so you don't lose your mind trying to find a crash, when its a windows issue (hours on me doing this!)
5) see step 4
6) see step 5
ok, now you're stable at stock (and i mean bulletproof stable)
7) get ready to find that CMOS button a lot you will freak your board out to the point you think its dead, but hold CMOS down, then unplug machine from the wall.
8)now the fun, play with xamp, I used second setting, make sure timings match Tested Latency: 16-18-18-36 see this page: http://
9) take your speed up to 3200
10) take voltage up to like 1.4 on RAM
11) leave CPU on stock auto settings
12) give the boot a try, if it freaks, CMOS reset and try the other xamp setting
13) tweak your voltage, but my bios/cpu auto set the voltage even when I manually set it at 1.4

My guess is youll be up and running at 3200 by then, if not you can ease up your northbridge voltage like .0125 and try again

At this point ill be honest, im running on auto volt with xamp 2 setting and it works fine, if yours is like mine you can completely ignore that auto configure ram "try me" even when all of it made logical sense to what the auto setting is, it freaked my mobo out every time

Its going to come down to voltage, almost guaranteed get ready to find the sweet spot and make sure you are super cool in your case, because jamming it up that high youll want to watch temps for extended play.

Good luck

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