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Hello, I recently decided to visit my BIOS 4 years after building my PC. I noticed that the RAM is shown as 2133MHz, while the RAM I have installed is actually supposed to be 3200Mhz... What's going on here?

 

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This is the current build I am working on:

>>>> The $2500 ($1900 US) Desktop <<<<

>>> Old Build <<<

LAST UPDATED: 30-September-16 / 05:38PM (Sydney Time) 

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A little more confused today? =) 

 

what FakeKGB said, on your screenshot set X.M.P. to enabled

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To explain why. XMP is a overclock profile and the 3200 are the dimms rated highest oc setting. That is why you have to enable XMP and why they don't run at that speed out of the box.

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XMP is already turned on. The image was apparently before that tho 😕 
Basically, I came across a bunch of differing numbers everywhere. 
The DRAM Status was showing 2133, while the "Memory:" above it was showing some other number.

I made some changes, changed some other settings to 3200, and then enabled XMP and saved it. The image shown in first post must have been before I made the small changes. These images show the current settings:

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This is the current build I am working on:

>>>> The $2500 ($1900 US) Desktop <<<<

>>> Old Build <<<

LAST UPDATED: 30-September-16 / 05:38PM (Sydney Time) 

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It does say it's running at 3200 so all seems good. The 2133 is probably a hardcoded string.

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I think it may be running 2133 only in the BIOS, try booting into Windows and see what speed task manager reports under Performance > Memory. It should say 3200mhz (mine says 2667 due to B460 but it's just to show where you find it)

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It says 3200 for me, so its probably working, with the BIOS having some issue reading or displaying it there as Kilrah mentioned

 

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This is the current build I am working on:

>>>> The $2500 ($1900 US) Desktop <<<<

>>> Old Build <<<

LAST UPDATED: 30-September-16 / 05:38PM (Sydney Time) 

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