Hans Gruber
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- Dec 23, 2006
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I always thought people used custom settings to make any ram kit work on an AMD build. That means manually tuning the ram.I recently gave a shot to buying XMP ram. It didn't go well. Something no one knows or talks about is not all PMICs are supported properly by agesa, and buying an EXPO kit guarantees you get something that is supported and will work.
The kit I bought from Corsair had MPS (Monolithic power systems) PMICs which are known to not function correctly according to oc circles. Didn't learn that until after I spent 12 hours trying to figure out why the ram wouldn't work right/had errors/caused weird system hangs no matter how I configured it.
Personally this experience will make me never buy a non-EXPO kit ever again. I postulate that the people who have used XMP kits without issue have been fortunate to get kits with the right PMICs to work on AM5.
G.Skill announced 2x48GB 6000C28 EXPO kits back in July, so I've relegated myself to waiting for those to hit the market.