1600MHZ Ram Showing AS 533MHZ?

[arberb]

I have 4gb of 1600MHZ ram and in my bios I set it up to 1600mhz but when I open up cpu-z it shows 533mhz


My mother board is a
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2h
Ram is corsair XMS3 DHX 2x2GB ddr3-1600 pc312800

[Bobnova]

What does the Memory tab show? The SPD tab has little to nothing to do with what speed the ram is actually running.

[arberb]

What does the Memory tab show? The SPD tab has little to nothing to do with what speed the ram is actually running.

535mhz

[Bobnova]

Are you sure it's set to 1600 in bios? I suspect you may have accidentally hit discard+quit instead of save/quit, as 1066 (what yours is running at) is the default for ddr3 if i remember correctly.

[arberb]

Are you sure it's set to 1600 in bios? I suspect you may have accidentally hit discard+quit instead of save/quit, as 1066 (what yours is running at) is the default for ddr3 if i remember correctly.

Yes i just checked it says 1600MHZ . The lowest settingis 800mhz in mybios anyways.

[Sprint]

You need to multiply the DRAM Frequency in CPU-Z by two to get the real clock.
I other words, your running 1066 now as Bobnova said.

Im assuming your checking these values when the desktop is idle, is that right? If it is, try stressing the desktop with a program like Prime95 and see if the speed goes up. It might very well just be in a power saving state.

[arberb]

You need to multiply the DRAM Frequency in CPU-Z by two to get the real clock.
I other words, your running 1066 now as Bobnova said.

Im assuming your checking these values when the desktop is idle, is that right? If it is, try stressing the desktop with a program like Prime95 and see if the speed goes up. It might very well just be in a power saving state.

I tried with call of duty
nothing

[euquility]

get rid of the wide screeny, terrible for my low res laptop screen =)

800MHz is correct because you need to multiply it by 2

[Bobnova]

800 in CPUz is 1600 as far as memory manufacturers are concerned, so you're all set.

Those are mighty slow timings though, if you can get them tighter you'll be much better off. (The timings are the 11-11-11-30-41-1t things under the 803mhz)

[arberb]

800 in CPUz is 1600 as far as memory manufacturers are concerned, so you're all set.

Those are mighty slow timings though, if you can get them tighter you'll be much better off. (The timings are the 11-11-11-30-41-1t things under the 803mhz)

Do you have any suggestions? I know I can edit them in the bios