Help With Ram Speed.

[elh_2009]

I recently built my 1st rig, everything is fine i was just wondering how do i check my ram speed, i bought the ocz 1600 but was told that intel boards only see 1333 so i would need to overclock it, i want to double check what it is running at how do i do this? also if i want to overclock the ram how do i do that and is it easy.

Thanks.

 

[elh_2009]

yeah ive done that it says its 533 is that correct? i thought it was supposed to be 1600?? or at least 1333?? sorry if thats a stupid question btw.

 

[elh_2009]

ah just seen the other reply

 

[elh_2009]

i have ddr3, so i x3 the speed yeah? meaning im running at 1600?

thanks.

 

[elh_2009]

whatever cpuz says your ram speed is, double it. if you have a core i7 put your blk to 200 then your ram should be 1600mhz or 800mhz in cpuz.

ok thanks, i do have a i7, how do i do that?

 

[elh_2009]

533 means your rams running at 1066, which I believe is the minimum default for an i7. You should be able to change that to get 667 (1333) in CPU-Z without overclocking the CPU, Then as you start overclocking the CPU the memory speed will rise in direct proportion to the overclock. If you have a great cpu which clocks beyond the ability of the memory you then change the ram multi down, so the memory isnt overclocked again etc.

how do i do it on cpu-z? if i cant do that ill try croggys way in the bios.

 

[elh_2009]

i went into my bios and set it to 1600 and in the memory tab for cpu-z it says DRAM Frequenvy as 800 but in the SPD tab it still says 533 under bandwith? which one should i be looking at?