Confused?

tally2425 · 24 Aug 2013 at 23:52

Well i bought these (Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit)

never thought i'd check up on them until now and i've noticed that on CPU-Z it says the DRAM Frequency 686Mhz, now shouldn't this be saying 1600mhz or am i wrong?

mickyflinn · 25 Aug 2013 at 12:13

Dram frequency is double what is stated so your is runing around 1366. Go into the bios and set the ram speed to 1600.

teppic · 25 Aug 2013 at 12:25

Your BIOS should have an auto memory profile thing (XMP) which will set things up correctly.

tally2425 · 25 Aug 2013 at 19:39

Thanks guys, i shall look into this and report back! should i see an increase in performance at all?

teppic · 25 Aug 2013 at 23:38

You will get an improvement, yeah. The memory's got very tight timings too, it's a good set.

Martini1991 · 25 Aug 2013 at 23:45

Sad days when 9-9-9 is tight

6-7-6 is what I used to run on 1600MHZ when I ran my Gskills, at 1400MHZ I did 5-6-5.

But yeah, as had already been said, use X.M.P, it'll show 800MHZ, x2 = 1600.