I'm having some trouble getting my RAM to POST consistently at it's rated speed so I've been reading around and watching videos. A couple of times I've read that if your RAM is on on your motherboard QVL list it might lead to 'memory training' taking longer than it should as the BIOS does not have pre-baked settings for your RAM kit. Is this true?
This is a relevant article from Games Nexus https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3...-uclock-mclock
One of the biggest points to remember during all of this -- and any other memory testing published by other outlets -- is that motherboard matters almost more than the memory kit itself. Motherboards are responsible for most of the timings auto configured on memory kits, even when using XMP, as XMP can only store so much data per kit. The rest, including unsurfaced timings that the user never sees, are done during memory training by the motherboard. Motherboard manufacturers maintain a QVL (Qualified Vendor List) of kits tested and approved on each board, and we strongly encourage system builders to check these lists rather than just buying a random kit of memory. Motherboard makers will even tune timings for some kits, so there’s potentially a lot of performance lost by using mismatched boards and memory.