Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz - Reporting 1600MHz in BIOS?

[NeilF]

I noticed the other day in my Asus Z97-A BIOS that my RAM is reporting being at 1600MHz?

It's Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit, so surely it should run a 2400MHz?

Does it really matter? ie: Would I notice a difference really?

 

[stulid]

Is XMP set in the bios?

 

[setter]

As above, set XMP in the ai overclock section in bios. It wont make a massive difference, but you might as well get the speed you paid for.

 

[NeilF]

As above, set XMP in the ai overclock section in bios. It wont make a massive difference, but you might as well get the speed you paid for.

...just checked... Set to Auto... I'll change next bootup to XMP then...

And that should then set it to 2400MHz?

 

[stulid]

Should do, downlaod CPU-Z and goto the memory tab, the frequency shown should be 1200Mhz (but effectively 2400 as its double date rate ram).

At the moment CPU-Z should show 800Mhz (half 1600)

 

[marc2003]

CPU-Z should show the XMP profile info on the SPD tab regardless of what the current setting is. Obviously I have slower ram (XMP-1600).

 

[stulid]

That shows the stored values of the data on the SPD chip on the RAM, not the actual speed its running at, the memory tab tells you the speed the RAM is running at.

 

[marc2003]

That shows the stored values of the data on the SPD chip on the RAM, not the actual speed its running at, the memory tab tells you the speed the RAM is running at.

Yep, all I was doing was confirming that once XMP was enabled in the bios, it would run at the speeds shown on the SPD tab.

 

[NeilF]

Right enabled XMP in BIOS. It also asked,did I want to enable all core optimisations or something and that cooling would be required so I just said NO to that...

CPU Z is now reading 1199.8...

So far so good

 

[Gze]

Guess it worked them.