How do I RAM?

[Swiebertjeee]

Hi all, 

 

Sorry if it is a bit of an odd question or maybe relative simple but I am struggling with the following. I have never actually paid attention to my RAM until someone pointed out my RAM was slow at like 1059 MHZ en I should get new RAM. So I checked my RAM to look what I had and it was the Corsait vengeance at 3000MHZ according to the stick and the product I bought. 

 

So I digged a little bit into it, and I heard in a video of JayZTwocents I had to enable XMP in order to receive the advertised speed. So I have enabled XMP but I am still getting only half of it, what am I missing to receive to advertised speed? 

 

Screenshots of CPU-Z: 

 

CPU: 8600K

Motherboard: Prime z370-A

[Oshino Shinobu]

DDR = Double Data Rate

 

1500MHz x2 = 3000MHz

 

DDR RAM performs two operations per clock cycle. The RAM is actually running at 1500MHz, but double data rate makes that an effective clock of 3000MHz, which is what is advertised and generally how RAM speed is measured. Yours is running at the correct speed. 

[archiso]

1 minute ago, Swiebertjeee said:

Hi all, 

 

Sorry if it is a bit of an odd question or maybe relative simple but I am struggling with the following. I have never actually paid attention to my RAM until someone pointed out my RAM was slow at like 1059 MHZ en I should get new RAM. So I checked my RAM to look what I had and it was the Corsait vengeance at 3000MHZ according to the stick and the product I bought. 

 

So I digged a little bit into it, and I heard in a video of JayZTwocents I had to enable XMP in order to receive the advertised speed. So I have enabled XMP but I am still getting only half of it, what am I missing to receive to advertised speed? 

 

Screenshots of CPU-Z: 

 

CPU: 8600K

Motherboard: Prime z370-A

that is the right speed. DDR stands for Double Data Rate mean that the ram runs twice as fast.

[Swiebertjeee]

5 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

DDR = Double Data Rate

 

1500MHz x2 = 3000MHz

 

DDR RAM performs two operations per clock cycle. The RAM is actually running at 1500MHz, but double data rate makes that an effective clock of 3000MHz, which is what is advertised and generally how RAM speed is measured. Yours is running at the correct speed. 

Ah thanks for that , I did not know this.