upgrading RAM on a Omen 30L

[DaveKirk85]

Hi

So I have tried upgrading to 32GB of RAM, I have followed all instructions, youtube tutorials, forums etc.

I have changed to XMP 1 in the BIOS and I get 3 slow beeps and 2 fast beeps. I have to do a hard reset to get the PC to boot.

My system is 

i7 10700k

rtx 3080

and upgrading to 32gb corsair vengenance pro.

Please help

[NonSequitur777]

@DaveKirk85,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

To make a long and distressing story short, your OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-0000i (236B0AV) fitted with the DoradoOC motherboard (SSID: 8703), is finnicky when it comes to accepting RAM and achieving max RAM speed.

Your PC supports up to 4 x 32GB (128GB total) of DDR4 PC4-25600, 3200 MHz, Non-EEC, Unbuffered, UDIMM, 288-pin RAM sticks, as you can see here: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/51699333.

Speaking of Corsair Vengeance RAM you try to make work, consider this OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-0xxx User with this pathetic Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK64GX4M2E3200C16 (2 x 32GB) RAM score ("DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz"): HP OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-0xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark...

Point is, when you carefully go through RAM benchmark scores here: UserBenchmark: HP OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-0xxx Compatible Components, you'll find that there are few RAM options that will actually perform well and at 3200 MHz. It turns out that the vast majority of your fellow gaming PC platform Users have HP-branded Kingston RAM installed -mostly in the 2 x 16GB Kingston HP32D4U8D8HC-16XR configuration.

Anyways, went through most of the UserBenchMark scores -so you don't have to bother, but the only non-HP branded RAM I found that actually runs at 3200 MHz are these:

Kingston Fury Beast KF3200C16D4/16GX
Kingston Fury Beast KF3200C16D4/32GX
Micron 16ATF2G64AZ-3G2E1

That is it.  This list is likely incomplete, but you get the idea.

My recommendation: return the Corsair Vengeance RAM to sender and get your money back.  Then pick either the HP-branded Kingston RAM (good luck with that) or pick one of the RAM options as listed above.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[DaveKirk85]

Hi

Thanks so much for the help, do you know if the 

Kingston FURY Beast RGB 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 CL16 is compatible? so i can add these to the current system and make it 32gb with 4 sticks of RAM?

[NonSequitur777]

@DaveKirk85,

That is a great question.  I don't know the answer to that, but based on expected cross-compatibility with its first-cousin Kingston Fury Beast KF3200C16D4 RAM, I would expect that the probability that it would work as anticipated is high.

Look, when it comes to HP and non-HP branded RAM, all proverbial bets are off.  We are talking about a trial-and-error process.  So, just in case, please be prepared to return to Sender if this RAM does not clock at 3200 MHz.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777