Lenovo RAM. Have I bought the wrong ones?

[Garlic]

I recently rescued an old M92p SFF system from the bin at work, and decided to throw some more RAM in it. It had a single stick of 4GB  DDR3 1600mhz RAM in it when I brought it home, and I have since added a kit of 4x4 GB Corsair XMS3 that I found on clearance. Trouble is that while the single stick actually ran at 1600, the fancy Corsair kit only runs at 1333.

 

There is no option to tinker with the RAM in the BIOS, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the 1600 speed advertised by Corsair is dependent on an XMP profile or manual overclock, which Lenovo of course won't let me do on a system like this.

 

Is there a way to speed up my RAM? Or am I stuck at 1333?

[MurderM]

Nah unfortunately you are stuck unless you swap motherboards with something thats unlocked. Annoying af I know I've been in a similar incident before.

[SupaKomputa]

Some motherboard restrict the speed when using all of the slots.

But hey, 1333 vs 1600 not that big of a difference.

Don't worry about it.

[Teddy07]

Won´t matter in daily use