Sarcastic Coffeecup Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Right so I ditched my old sticks of ram and upgraded to 16gb of 1600 DDR3, however upon inspecting on CPU-Z, it shows they're running at max 800mhz. Why is this? My motherboard should by all means support higher freqs. As far as my understanding goes RAM should be about the simplest piece you can stick on a pc, just slab them in and it works as intended. This works half that and I'm confusied why it's not using their max potential.. Some specs for you guys: System Name COFFEEPC-PC System Manufacturer MSI System Model MS-7640 System Type x64-based PC Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor, 3200 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s) Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514" Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB Total Physical Memory 16.0 GB Available Physical Memory 13.1 GB Total Virtual Memory 32.0 GB Available Virtual Memory 28.7 GB Page File Space 16.0 GB Additional info on specs as requested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyAshes Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 DDR memory is Double Datarate Ram. 800mhz is actually the correct speed, everything is actually fine, you have no problems. It double pumps at 800mhz so it's 'equal' to 1600Mhz to make it sound like a bigger number, it all works like that, no worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcastic Coffeecup Posted December 29, 2015 Author Share Posted December 29, 2015 1 hour ago, AshleyAshes said: DDR memory is Double Datarate Ram. 800mhz is actually the correct speed, everything is actually fine, you have no problems. It double pumps at 800mhz so it's 'equal' to 1600Mhz to make it sound like a bigger number, it all works like that, no worries. Well that explains a ton. Cheers big ears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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