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hello everyone,

 

Recently i ordered a set of 2133mhz ram and when i installed it i opened up speccy and it said the speeds where around 1000. So i checked online about the ram and i read that you had to enable xmp profiles in the ram so i did that and set the speed to the advertised speed on the ram. 9-11-11-31. After i did that i went back in to speccy and it said that the ram was running at 1070. So i downloaded a ram speed tester app for windows 8 and ran it a few times and got around 1040. Anyone know what is going on? 

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Once you have set it to XMP it will set it to the advertised specifications. Just set it to XMP and the rest should automatically fall into place.

 

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Is your mobo able to run the RAM at that speed?

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hello everyone,

 

Recently i ordered a set of 2133mhz ram and when i installed it i opened up speccy and it said the speeds where around 1000. So i checked online about the ram and i read that you had to enable xmp profiles in the ram so i did that and set the speed to the advertised speed on the ram. 9-11-11-31. After i did that i went back in to speccy and it said that the ram was running at 1070. So i downloaded a ram speed tester app for windows 8 and ran it a few times and got around 1040. Anyone know what is going on? 

 

CPU-Z should tell you the speed, also did you set it to 2133MHz in the BIOS?

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Download CPU-Z

Reboot system to manually set timings, frequency and voltage

Launch CPU-Z and navigate to the memory tab

 

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Verify whether or not every thing is correct. Look at "DRAM Frequency" and multiply it by 2. Remember, double data rate is what DDR stands for. As you can see from my screenshot, it reads as "933.5Mhz" which is 1867Mhz which is defaulted to 1866Mhz.

 

 

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Download CPU-Z

Reboot system to manually set timings, frequency and voltage

Launch CPU-Z and navigate to the memory tab

 

cfb8351b38db42fa97630053686e193f.png

 

Verify whether or not every thing is correct. Look at "DRAM Frequency" and multiply it by 2. Remember, double data rate is what DDR stands for. As you can see from my screenshot, it reads as "933.5Mhz" which is 1867Mhz which is defaulted to 1866Mhz.

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Then it's running at rated speed. 1070x2=2140. DDRx has to be doubled, it's in the name.

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