I have an Asus A68HM-Plus Motherboard and was wondering whether or not I can install two sticks of 8GB HyperX FURY DDR3 RAM, they are 1600 MHz I can't find any info on whether my motherboard supports this MHz or not. I Currently have a Stick of 8GB HyperX RAM but it is only something like 700MHz so im looking to get rid of that.
Memory/ Motherboard Query
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That motherboard will support two 8GB sticks of HyperX Fury no problem. When you say the RAM is at "something like 700MHz", how are you reading that speed?
667MHz is half of 1333MHz. If you're using CPU-Z, it will read the RAM frequency at half the actual speed because DDR stands for Double Data Rate.
So if you were using DDR3 1600MHz, it would show up as 800MHz in CPU-Z.
667MHz is half of 1333MHz. If you're using CPU-Z, it will read the RAM frequency at half the actual speed because DDR stands for Double Data Rate.
So if you were using DDR3 1600MHz, it would show up as 800MHz in CPU-Z.
I used a program called "Speccy", I can fully confirm once im home later anyway.
Back in the day, there were 800MHz and 1066MHz speeds available as well.
It sounds like Speccy is doing a CPU-Z and reporting the data bus clock speed rather than the actual data rate. A quick google shows that hardware monitors often report the RAM speed as half the actual, due to the double data rate thing.
It sounds like Speccy is doing a CPU-Z and reporting the data bus clock speed rather than the actual data rate. A quick google shows that hardware monitors often report the RAM speed as half the actual, due to the double data rate thing.
2 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2400(O.C.)/2133/1866/1600/1333 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory
https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/A68HMPLUS/specifications/