Is my memory not running at full speed

joedeath332 · 10 Dec 2018 at 14:44

So i built my system last month and all has been fine and super fast ( esp with the M2 drive ) , however when i had my task manager open i noticed the following under Memory : SPEED 2133MHz
So is my memory speed not setup correctly in the bios , OR can the speed of the memory go up and down like the speed of a cpu.
My system specs are :
MB : Asus rog strix X470-f gaming
CPU : Ryzen 7 2700x
Drive : Samsung 500gb 970 evo M2
GPU : Gigabyte 1080ti gaming OC

marco.da.man · 10 Dec 2018 at 14:49

what ram and speed did you buy ?
have you enabled xmp ?

chroniclard · 10 Dec 2018 at 14:58

No, its running at the default speed. Would need to dial in your settings in the bios.

What exact ram is it?

Doug2507 · 10 Dec 2018 at 15:46

Sounds like tsk Mgr shows JEDEC. Open up cpu-z or bios.

Jamin280672 · 10 Dec 2018 at 16:03

joedeath332 said:
So i built my system last month and all has been fine and super fast ( esp with the M2 drive ) , however when i had my task manager open i noticed the following under Memory : SPEED 2133MHz
So is my memory speed not setup correctly in the bios , OR can the speed of the memory go up and down like the speed of a cpu.
My system specs are :
MB : Asus rog strix X470-f gaming
CPU : Ryzen 7 2700x
Drive : Samsung 500gb 970 evo M2
GPU : Gigabyte 1080ti gaming OC

You didnt list what ram you actually brought, we wont know if its running at the correct speed without knowing what you brought, if you brought 2133mhz ram then its running as it should.

@Doug2507 task manager shows what is set in the bios:

DarkHorizon472 · 10 Dec 2018 at 16:28

Assuming you have not bought slower RAM enable DOCP in BIOS so it sets the memory speed automatically. If this causes problems just put the setting back the way it was.

joedeath332 · 10 Dec 2018 at 18:52

marco.da.man said:
what ram and speed did you buy ?
have you enabled xmp ?

chroniclard said:
No, its running at the default speed. Would need to dial in your settings in the bios.

What exact ram is it?

Doug2507 said:
Sounds like tsk Mgr shows JEDEC. Open up cpu-z or bios.

Jamin280672 said:
You didnt list what ram you actually brought, we wont know if its running at the correct speed without knowing what you brought, if you brought 2133mhz ram then its running as it should.

@Doug2507 task manager shows what is set in the bios:

DarkHorizon472 said:
Assuming you have not bought slower RAM enable DOCP in BIOS so it sets the memory speed automatically. If this causes problems just put the setting back the way it was.

Sorry all i was to busy posting my specs i totally forgot to press the paste button and paste a link to the ram in question lol
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...hannel-kit-black-cmk16gx4m2b30-my-445-cs.html

joedeath332 · 10 Dec 2018 at 18:54

ill reboot pc in a bit and check the bios settings for the memory

chroniclard · 10 Dec 2018 at 19:04

First set docp and see if its stable at 3000.

joedeath332 · 10 Dec 2018 at 21:51

chroniclard said:
First set docp and see if its stable at 3000.

eventually found DOCP and got it set to 3000mhz and its currently running prime 95 & Heaven at the same time.
that jump gave me about another 80pts in cinebench taking my score to 1802

marco.da.man · 11 Dec 2018 at 07:52

glad you got sorted