Solved RAM Speed Queries

[a5hm]

Hi i got 8gb of ram off my brother for christmas along with that i had a new motherboard. now everything seems to run ok but i can't help but get the feeling that my ram is not running at it's correct speed.

The mother board is a gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H

And the ram is Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 XMS3 i5.. | Ebuyer.com

But everywhere it says all over my pc it's running at 666 mhz for example :



Any help is appreciated

 

[stormy13]

Running right where it is supposed to when you consider the default memory speed supported by the memory controller built into the CPU is 1333 MHZ. Also that 666/667 MHz you're seeing needs to be doubled; don't forget DDR stands for double data rate.

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Now with that said, to get the memory to run at 1600 Mhz (800) you will have to manually set it to that speed in that speed in the bios.

 

[a5hm]

Thanks