Ram Frequency way below average (G.SKILL)

[TimeRunner]

So my ram right now is way below for what it is at a 2133 MHz where it is supposed to be 3200 MHz. With some digging I figured that it was a problem with my motherboard bios because I couldn't do anything on it regardless bc of how ancient it is and that I need to enable XMP ,but when I go into the bios I see no such thing? Am I missing something ? Do I need to update the bios which I should've done already ? Do you need more info to solve the problem ? Is there something else wrong ?

 

My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF

 

My whole PC benchmark is here https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/29229025

So there is a cool thing and you can see everyone that has the same memory and here is as follows with my benchmark on the bottom

 

 

 

[narrdarr]

What motherboard do you have?

[Drama Lama]

Well then set the frequency manually to 3200

[TimeRunner]

1 minute ago, narrdarr said:

What motherboard do you have?

Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF

[TimeRunner]

Just now, Drama Lama said:

Well then set the frequency manually to 3200

I dont think its that easy or my motherbaord would've thought about it ?

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, TimeRunner said:

So my ram right now is way below for what it is at a 2133 MHz where it is supposed to be 3200 MHz. With some digging I figured that it was a problem with my motherboard bios because I couldn't do anything on it regardless bc of how ancient it is and that I need to enable XMP ,but when I go into the bios I see no such thing? Am I missing something ? Do I need to update the bios which I should've done already ? Do you need more info to solve the problem ? Is there something else wrong ?

There really should be an 'XMP' option in the BIOS.

What motherboard do you have?

[TimeRunner]

Just now, minibois said:

There really should be an 'XMP' option in the BIOS.

What motherboard do you have?

Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF

[TimeRunner]

I will restart my PC to see if there is anything else

[minibois]

2 minutes ago, TimeRunner said:

Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF

H170 boards do not support XMP.

Your best bet shall be manual overclocking, but I don't have experience with that.

[narrdarr]

I believe your motherboard handles xmp automatically. And that you can get it to reread the ram by loading optimized default settings in the bios

[TimeRunner]

6 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

I believe your motherboard handles xmp automatically. And that you can get it to reread the ram by loading optimized default settings in the bios

could it be that I had ram previous to this ram now and that it is using that one ? Idk I doubt it 

[TimeRunner]

9 minutes ago, minibois said:

H170 boards do not support XMP.

Your best bet shall be manual overclocking, but I don't have experience with that.

thats a yikes

 

[narrdarr]

 

Just now, TimeRunner said:

could it be that I had ram previous to this ram now and that it is using that one ? Idk I doubt it 

Yes

 

Do you any special configuration in your bios?

[Haro]

Just now, TimeRunner said:

could it be that I had ram previous to this ram now and that it is using that one ? Idk I doubt it 

As @minibois said your best bet is manually over clocking it 

Go to advanced frequency settings

 

Try bumping it slightly to 2400 and work your way up to the advertised speed 

If you want you can do a vccio / vccsa bump to 1.1 and then try 2933 

[TimeRunner]

I guess it is time to upgrade my ancient motherboard

[TimeRunner]

Just now, TofuHaroto said:

As @minibois said your best bet is manually over clocking it 

Go to advanced frequency settings

 

Try bumping it slightly to 2400 and work your way up to the advertised speed 

If you want you can do a vccio / vccsa bump to 1.1 and then try 2933 

I will try that 

[TimeRunner]

1 minute ago, narrdarr said:

 

Yes

 

Do you any special configuration in your bios?

not that i know of

[narrdarr]

3 minutes ago, TimeRunner said:

not that i know of

I didn't think so.

 

It should be perfectly fine to try. The worst thing that can happen is that you in the same situation.

[TimeRunner]

6 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

I didn't think so.

 

It should be perfectly fine to try. The worst thing that can happen is that you in the same situation.

I will experiment with it to try and figure it out ,but from what i have seen so far in order to change the values you need to up the multiplier and I am in no shape to start putting in random values into it.

 

-------EDIT

I actually can't even change the value when in manual or advanced manual 

[TimeRunner]

13 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

I didn't think so.

 

It should be perfectly fine to try. The worst thing that can happen is that you in the same situation.

So I tried it and it just defults into these settings 

[narrdarr]

Bummer. I think your locked but. Might be one other thing to try. It depends on your bios version. Can you check what version you have?

[Guest]

That board only supports 2133MHz.