This is actually kinda cool! Hopefully it eventually becomes a "default" of some sort or at least has an easy toggle in compatible configs.
ascendings
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oh gee, thanks! 🤣
If this is true, that's a small win but I'll take it :)
That's very cool! I'll have to make one for my wife :)
I can't say I'm surprised. I can't imagine too many scenarios where one would want to buy a motherboard without RAM and a CPU, barring the obvious replacement purchases and the occasion you might need a feature your board doesn't have (like PCIe gen 4 to gen 5). Yet another hardware shortage definitely puts a damper on enthusiasm too...
Maybe we'll see motherboards come down in price to drive sales? One can hope.
If you haven't yet, I would try disabling the XMPP/DOCP profile to see if that passes a test. This will tell you if the RAM is just dead or if it's degraded a bit and can't hit the same speeds as it did before. If it does pass, then re-enable that profile and try downclocking or loosening the timings a bit to see if that'll work.
Failing that, you could try increasing the voltage slightly (like +0.05V, I wouldn't go above 1.4V), but I'd be careful on this front to not cause anymore damage.
Sucks that this happened right now, but IMO it'd be better to sacrifice a slight hit in performance than to buy RAM by itself at these premiums.