DDR4 3000 isn't really working on 3000 MHz on Gigabyte Gaming K5

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Hey, so I'm not a big pro in overclocking but I've seen 90% of the vids on youtube and having issues with that for 3 days already.

So I have a Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K5 Motherboard with Ryzen 5 1600x and G.Skil Trident RGB 2x8GB 3000 MHz.

So I've tried to set up a 3000 MHz profile in BIOS and it didn't work at all, then I tried to manually set it to 3200 and it didn't work as well.

I feel kind of bad that on AIDA64 DDR benchmarks I get really low scores compared to my CPU which is almost always among the top 15 (after OC to 3950).

Here are some screenshots from CPUZ showing that my DDR won't move from 1066 MHz no matter what I set up in BIOS:
http://take.ms/Rvfq7
http://take.ms/zA9tx
http://take.ms/fCHKd

BIOS Settings:
https://imgur.com/a/zYFMX
(I've changed Voltage to 1.35 in the advanced Voltage Settings)

P.s I've updated BIOS to the last version yesterday and it didn't help.

Can someone suggest what to do next? What exactly should I be changing in BIOS so it will finally work on the suggested speeds?

Thanks.
 
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try 2933 mhz or 2800 mhz or 2666mhz. Ryzen is very very picky about ram frequency. On my former ryzen 1700x my Kingston Savage ddr4 2800 could run at 2800 only with 2 sticks and even them very unstable, with 4 sticks i could run only at 2666 and it was very unstable.
try 2933 mhz or 2800 mhz or 2666mhz. Ryzen is very very picky about ram frequency. On my former ryzen 1700x my Kingston Savage ddr4 2800 could run at 2800 only with 2 sticks and even them very unstable, with 4 sticks i could run only at 2666 and it was very unstable.
 
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FrozenGod

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Well, nothing works really... Here is my BIOS setup: https://imgur.com/a/zYFMX (I've changed Voltage to 1.35 in the advanced Voltage Settings)

EDIT: You are right, it only works with 2800MHz.
Fixed my issue with setting the CAS to 15 instead of AUTO and tRAS to 35 (It was 36).
Now it's kicking on 2800 MHz.

I wonder if there is no point in buying faster DDRs since Ryzen can only support up to 2800 MHz memory?
 

FrozenGod

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Thanks for the info!
Seems like they're going to add support for the Trident RGB version as well anytime soon (read on their forums) so I think I'll stick to them RGB rams cause my build is pretty damn visual :)
 

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