How do you know what you're running at?

Kenjiin · 28 Feb 2013 at 17:22

I just had a quick check in CPU-Z and it says my DRAM frequency is 800mhz.

I'm using Samsung Green 8gb but I thought they were 1600mhz? Unless I'm being really stupid (huge possibility) and the 1600 is what they run at combined?

Noob question >.>

BarKeep · 28 Feb 2013 at 17:34

DDR - Double Data Rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM

Smoogels · 28 Feb 2013 at 17:41

Yes, it's normal. Confused me to when I first saw it

Kenjiin · 28 Feb 2013 at 17:51

Haha, thank you

Yeah I was confused, until I started typing the post really and then realised that might be them combined lol. Was just wondering as apparently my ram clocks very well, but not sure how to OC ram.

Snapshot · 28 Feb 2013 at 18:10

No, it's not the combined speed. DDR means the RAM is read (or written) on the rising and falling sides of the clock signal so it's read twice for each clock cycle.

Kenjiin · 28 Feb 2013 at 18:43

Oh I've gotcha I think. So It's basically 800mhz x2 per stick?

Snapshot · 1 Mar 2013 at 05:47

Yup, that's it. It would still be 1600 if you had only one stick or two or four or whatever your mobo holds.