RAM Speed Confusion

[Biohazard186]

Hello, all.

 

I recently built a new computer and the RAM I chose was some DDR4 3200 Mhz sticks from Corsair. I paired them with an Asus Hero Alpha, which the product page indicated could handle that speed no problem. After getting everything set up I immediately went into the BIOS to set the ram speed. I've tried both manually setting it and using the XMP mode and the BIOS isn't reporting any problems. By all indication the memory is running at 3200 Mhz. However, when I get to the desktop and check utilities like Speccy and CPU-Z they report the memory frequency being at 1600 Mhz. I am new to overclocking RAM so I'm not sure how to interpret this. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Electronics Wizardy]

ddr ram is double rate, so the clock speed is half of the the effective rate.

 

Its working right.

[Biohazard186]

@Electronics Wizardy Alright, thanks.