ntweedie2007

Hey! Thinking of adding 2 additional sticks of RAM to go from 32GB to 64GB. I currently have the Corsair Dom. Plat. DDR5 5600. The codes on them are CMT32GX5M2X5600C36. However, when searching online, the closest match I can find have the code CMT32GX5M2B5600C36. Does this matter? Will they still be compatible even though the codes are slightly different? Also, why are mine 'X' and those available now 'B'? (not as important, but would be nice to know). Finally, just to be sure, my MSI MPG Z690 Carbon will make use of all four sticks, yes? I've always shied away from quad channel and just stuck with dual. Thanks!!

Hey, thanks for the reply! I think my chipset is up to date, but will give it a try and go through the other steps in a bit. As a test, on my own initiative (a very dangerous thing for me) I changed a setting in the MSI BIOS whereby you specify the speed of the RAM rather than have the BIOS decide, I guess. First boot afterwards it seems to be working, but that could just be a one-off. Time will tell.

Hey! I wonder if you have ever found a fix for this? I have the same issue, same Mobo. The lack of an SPD write feature on BIOS seems to prevent an easy fix!!!

Does anyone know of a fix for this happening when not using an ASUS board? I have an MSI MPG Z690 Carbon Wifi and it has never worked properly with the RAM since I got it brand new 8 months ago. There does not appear to be this fabled SPD Write option in MSI BIOS sadly. SPD is definitely it though, as when the RAM isn't detected, it will show nothing under that heading in CPU-Z for example. The RAM does occasionally get picked up and loads correctly, maybe 1 in 5 boots? So I don't think there is anything wrong with the hardware.

Hi all Unsure if this is an issue with the RAM or the Motherboard, but hopefully someone can help either way! Basically, 9 times out of 10 when I boot up, the RAM (Corsair Dominator Plat DDR5) isn't recognised by either iCUE or CPU-Z. It is there, and the Windows system sees I have 32gb of RAM, but iCUE can't detect it (the lighting doesn't change to what it should and in iCUE there is a little red warning triangle saying it has 'Stopped detecting data from DRAM....'. In CPU-Z the issue is with SPD I think, as loading up CPU-Z hangs at that stage and inside that tab, it shows nothing in any of the 4 RAM slots. In the Memory tab it shows I have 32gb and the speeds are correct, but the SPD tab shows nothing at all?? I'm unsure if this is actually affecting performance, or just a visual thing. I did see posts on Google saying that with ASUS boards, you can disable an SPD setting to fix the issue, but unfortunately I have an MSI board (MPG Carbon Wifi) and it doesn't have this setting. It has the latest BIOS and the RAM also does (I assume - iCUE, when it can detect the RAM, says there are no firmware updates). Rebooting the PC *SOMETIMES* fixes the issue on the first reboot, but other times it can take 2-3 reboots back to back for the RAM to be recognised. It's very frustrating. Greatly appreciate any help! ❤️(Just in case it is needed, I have Windows 11 and the PC is around 4-5 months old now).

Truly awesome feedback C, thanks so much! I'm going to go as you suggest, so appreciate you reinforcing my thinking there. Now I can have my RAM match my fans, cooler, keyboard, mouse, mouse pad and headset stand in iCue!

Hey Corsair fans! I'm after your knowledge :) Dominator Platinum RGB, PC4-27700 (3466), Non-ECC Unbuff, CAS 16-18-18-36 OR Dominator Platinum RGB, PC4-32000 (4000), Non-ECC Unbuff, CAS 19-23-23-45 Currently, I have 16GB 3200Mhz so looking to double that and make it a little faster. I have an Asus hero maximus X mobo, so that should support the higher speed and an i7-8700k overclocked. RTX 2080 overclocked too. I guess it comes down to - will I notice much difference between 3466 and 4000 (maybe bottlenecked somewhere else at 4000?) and the timings. I notice they are quite a fair bit higher on the 4000 kit, which is putting me off a little - but again, I don't know how much 'real world' impact that would have. If I got the 3466Mhz, how easy is it to OC it? I saw someone get it to 3733Mhz pretty easily, which sounds very good to me. Any comments are most appreciated! Black Friday coming up, so time to spend on the PC again, haha... Less than last year though, monitor/gfx card was a bigggg chunk of change. This is much more reasonable.

Hey! So I tried setting lighting link to temperature (I have keyboard, mouse, mouse pad, headphone stand, cooler, fans and RAM that are Corsair). The fans and cooler change colour based on temperature, but none of the others do. They just stay at the previous lighting link setting, which was a solid colour. Is this meant to be the case? Do only the bits in the case change when temperature is selected?

IIRC iCUE is 32-bit, even if (like most people) you use a 64-bit system. I have no idea if that is part of the problem with the CPU hogging, but it surely can't help?