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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by bmenrigh on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:16PM (#50447066)
I'm talking about with 4 sticks, not 2.

I've never gotten 4 sticks to pass training, no matter what I change. This is a well-known limitation. Some people, with newer AGEIS on certain motherboards, have been able to get 4 sticks above 3600 MT/s but it's not possible for most people, and questionably stable even for those that have succeeded.

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by papascrubs on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:57PM (#50447492)
I've had no issues on my ASRock X870E Taichi from the very beginning. I'm running four 24 gig sticks at 6000 MT/s (Corsair, all bought before the crazy). I didn't realize people were having this many issues. These are on the certified lists from the manufacturer of the motherboard. Never had a problem. They've been working through multiple AGESA updates / multiple BIOS updates without a hitch.
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by eyegor on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:06PM (#50448555)
X870e is not am4 though. That's ddr5 and a different memory controller.
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by happymellon on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:29AM (#50450669)
The initial comment wasn't about AM4.

> Their existing AM5 Zen4/5 memory controller when using both memory channels is terrible. Extremely hard or impossible to get above 3600 MT/s.

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by bmenrigh on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:47PM (#50449209)
I’m on an MSI x670e with 4x32 sticks, also Corsair. Never gotten training beyond 3600. I’ve recently seen people posting success stories on my same motherboard at 6000 MT thanks to newer bios AGESA. But none of that has worked for me.
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by eyegor on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:10PM (#50448591)
Not sure how deep into it you went, but I found with 4 sticks I had to bump soc voltage, memory voltage, and loosen all my timings, especially tRFC. I can only pass training at marginally higher mem clocks with tRFC around 350ns with 4 sticks whereas 2 sticks was down near 200ns. Is it perfectly stable though... I think it's crashed once in the past month? So not perfect but it passed 12-24h of every stress test I could think of, and the one crash was near idle which probably just means my voltages need another bump.
Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by SomeHacker44 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:03PM (#50448965)
I have a 9950X with 4x48G sticks. It is so hard to get it to boot even at 3600. But I persevere to run my local LLMs. I would love to get a new reliable chip for this same motherboard and RAM.