Cannot overclock my RAM

[Brennan Price]

Hello, I have 12GB of RAM but they are different brands. One brand is Kingston 4GB and the other is an 8GB Geil stick. Both are DDR3 and are meant to be running at 1600MHz. However in CPU-Z they show up as running at 800MHz. I have given it a go at overclocking my RAM but I have had no results from it and it does affect gameplay too. I noticed this since when I play warface and other people in team show on my monitor I can get very bad LAG that also freezes my game for up to 10 seconds. Does anyone know how to fix it? and if so could you show me how?

 

Kind regards Brennan Price

[Oshino Shinobu]

DDR = Double Data Rate. The actual clock of the RAM is 800MHz (what CPU-Z shows), while the effective clock is 1600MHz (what they are spec'd as). They're running at the correct speeds. 

[SeanAngelo]

Hello, I have 12GB of RAM but they are different brands. One brand is Kingston 4GB and the other is an 8GB Geil stick. Both are DDR3 and are meant to be running at 1600MHz. However in CPU-Z they show up as running at 800MHz. I have given it a go at overclocking my RAM but I have had no results from it and it does affect gameplay too. I noticed this since when I play warface and other people in team show on my monitor I can get very bad LAG that also freezes my game for up to 10 seconds. Does anyone know how to fix it? and if so could you show me how?

 

Kind regards Brennan Price

800mhz x 2 = 1600mhz

 

hence, the DDR = Double Data Rate

[xgn]

Thats normal 1333mhz show up as 667 there is no need to overclock ram if you overclock CPU with XMP the ram will adjust accordingly also the latency matters more for performance.

[Brennan Price]

Thanks, although I still can't figure out why Warface keeps freezing so violently. Can anyone answer this?

[Analog]

Thanks, although I still can't figure out why Warface keeps freezing so violently. Can anyone answer this?

 

Not unless you tell use your other system specs and resolution of your screen. Also have you installed all of the latest drivers? Check CPU and GPU usage during games, it is possible than one of them is throttling if has been overclocked.   

[Brennan Price]

Well now I do know a bit more about this since I posted it. Basically I figured it was NOT my RAM but was my CPU. Which I also figured out that two of my CPU cores kept parking themselves when in game at random times out of the four. I overclocked my CPU to 4.2GHz from 3.7GHz and does not reach any higher than 65 degrees with stock cooler. However since overclocking, my freezing is not so violent but does still happen. You can see my specs if you click on my Profile.