Fixing memory instability on Colorful B450M-T for Control 2

Right in the middle of using my powers, the screen would freeze and the game would just vanish. It's nerve-wracking. On the Colorful B450M at 3200MHz, the voltage was swinging between 1.32V - 1.36V, causing rare but fatal memory cell errors. I tried dropping the frequency to 2933MHz, which stopped the crashes but cut my FPS by 12%, and that felt like a losing compromise. I decided to lock the voltage precisely at 1.38V and manually loosened the secondary timings, keeping the RAM temps between 46℃ - 52℃. Even then, it crashed in a few specific scenes until I disabled the CPU's PBO auto-boost. Then it finally became rock solid. CPU temps sat at 66℃ - 73℃ with fans spinning at 1700 RPM. I ran four full passes of MemTest86 and got zero errors, with the fans holding steady at 1700 RPM. It's a bit of a workaround, but it's stable.
Category:Hardware Peripherals Last updated:March 25, 2026 2:35 PM