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HP24
By HP24
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i have recently built a new pc and a friend recommended i download speccy to check my components and i noticed that my ram only shows up as 1197MHz event though i bought the 2x 4gb team vulcan memory clocked at 3ghz

help?

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The first thing that I would do is check If XMP profile has been enabled but even so the speed should not be that low ... hmmm

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1 minute ago, harryp2404 said:

thanks for this. do you know if there is any way to improve it 

yeah, by enabling xmp

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Just now, LukeSavenije said:

yeah, by enabling xmp

sorry to be a pain but i dont know what that is

 

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There is two ways that you can go about this. 

 

The first way is enabling XMP. This is a setting in the bios of the motherboard . Look for the RAM settings and make sure the button says ‘enabled’ This will allow your RAM to run at its full potential (The rated speed that it was advertised at).

 

The second way is overclocking the RAM although I would not recommend doing this at its not a super common practise.

 

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Just now, harryp2404 said:

sorry to be a pain but i dont know what that is

 

are you on amd or intel?

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On 12/26/2018 at 12:36 PM, LukeSavenije said:

are you on amd or intel?

amd

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1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

then xmp profile 2 maybe works?

ok thanks

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Not sure if speccy shows advertised speed or actual speed, but DDR stands for double data rate. As such some software will show the actual clock speed of the ram, half of what you would expect to see and is normal.

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17 hours ago, asand1 said:

Not sure if speccy shows advertised speed or actual speed, but DDR stands for double data rate. As such some software will show the actual clock speed of the ram, half of what you would expect to see and is normal.

ok thanks i didnt think of that

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