RAM

[Jbreezy2322]

So I put my gskill trident Z into my MOBO they r supposed to be 3000 mHz but my gigabyte board recognizes them as 2133 any ideas to get it to the 3000

[Trevor87]

What is your MOBO ?

[Wolly9102]

''overclock'' the ram in the bios. I had this with my Adata XPG which supposed to be 2400 but showed up as 2133  at the beginning.

[Jbreezy2322]

1 minute ago, Trevor87 said:

What is your MOBO ?

Gigabyte G1 gaming z170x

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Jbreezy2322 said:

Gigabyte G1 gaming z170x

Enable XMP in the BIOS, setting it to profile #1.

[steffeeh]

That's how it works. The RAM automatically downclocks to what the CPU is built for to ensure compability. From there you can either enable XMP to get 3000MHz or you can manually edit the settings.

The marketed speed etc on a RAM kit in the store is always the XMP profile.

 

Keep in mind though that sometimes a lighter CPU overclock might be needed to make the XMP RAM speed (or other manually edited speed) work and be compatible. But that's a different topic.

[Jbreezy2322]

1 minute ago, Arjan W said:

''overclock'' the ram in the bios. I had this with my Adata XPG which supposed to be 2400 but showed up as 2133  at the beginning.

Thanks! I'll try it out. 

[mpsparrow]

4 minutes ago, Arjan W said:

''overclock'' the ram in the bios. I had this with my Adata XPG which supposed to be 2400 but showed up as 2133  at the beginning.

I had that same problem with my Corsair ram on my Asus z170-a. Going into the bios and overclocking it worked.

[Wolly9102]

2 minutes ago, Jbreezy2322 said:

Thanks! I'll try it out. 

let me know if it helps

[Jbreezy2322]

Sick guys I got it to work. Thanks for your help!

[Wolly9102]

3 minutes ago, mpsparrow said:

I had that same problem with my Corsair ram on my Asus z170-a. Going into the bios and overclocking it worked.

it's because it's  in my case what my CPU max supports. (core I5 6600K=2133 Mhz) the ram is limited on that.

 

https://ark.intel.com/products/88191/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

[mpsparrow]

1 minute ago, Arjan W said:

it's because it's what my CPU max supports. (core I5 6600K=2133 Mhz) the ram is limited on that.

 

https://ark.intel.com/products/88191/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

Makes sense. My i7-6700K = 2133MHz as well.

[steffeeh]

Most modern CPU's goes with that bandwidth as it's 100% guaranteed to work (speedwise) for DDR4 builds - better that than going with other bandwidths that can cause compability issues on different motherboards and chipsets, espcially when you fill out most RAM slots or do overclocking.

Then all you can do is bump up the RAM bandwidth by XMP or manually and hope it works with your build