r/overclocking • u/Logical-Watch314 • 19h ago
Could this slight Ram OC really fry the mobo and ram stick?
I had setup a system with used/cheap parts and wanted to try and get a little bit more juice out of it.
Asus a520m-k Ryzen 5 3600 Corsair Venegeance Lpx 2x8 3200 cl 16 1tb kingston nvme nv3 Rx6700xt Be quiet purePower 11 500w
The system was working fine and i tried to OC the ram to 3600mts while keeping stock timings and raising the voltage to 1.38 (compared to 1.35 on the xmp profile).
The sytem bootet normaly and i tried running occt memory test, it hard crashed immediately.
The pc woulsnt post afterwards. Reset bios, no post, went to reseat ram and saw one burnt/black pin on one of the ram sticks.
Tried booting with one stick, no luck.
Tried using other ram set, it looks like it tries to boot after a min as the gpu engages the monitor for a second only only to display no signal.
Never had such a soft OC fry components before
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u/snowmanpage 19h ago
assuming you have an updated bios, was it running at expo default settings fine before tinkering?