1600mhz ram runnning at 1066mhz

[drummerguy727]

Hello everyone. I have 1x8gb of corsair vengeance LP ram, which is supposed to run at 1600mhz. When i go into my motherboards BIOS, it says the ram is running at 1200 or something like that, and in windows 8's task manager its says 1066. I have no idea why this is happening. Im pretty new to building and maintaining PCs, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[volcanoscout]

What motherboard are you using? At a guess, you need to go into your BIOS and enable XMP Profile for your DRAM. Right now it's running at the mobo's default speed.

 

[junkeymonkey]

it may be its default setting and you have to set it to 1600 manually or use the xmp or jdec profiles

 

[geofelt]

Your ram is operating at a default speed so you can enter the bios.
In the bios, set the speed to 1600 preferably by using a XMP profile that says 1600.

 

[drummerguy727]

thank you everyone for your answers. the mobo i have is the asus m5a97 r2.0. how do i use an XMP profile?

 

[geofelt]

thank you everyone for your answers. the mobo i have is the asus m5a97 r2.0. how do i use an XMP profile?

There should be an option in the bios to load a xmp profile.

 

[volcanoscout]

Start or restart your computer and boot to your BIOS (hit "DEL" key while it's posting). Select the "AI Tweaker" menu tab. Change the Ai Overclock Tuner setting from "Auto" to "D.O.C.P." (DRAM OC Profile - we called it XMP, but that's for Intel boards not AMD). It should then give you a setting option labeled DRAM OC Profile - click on this and select 1600. Then hit the Exit button in the top right corner of the screen. Then hit "save changes and exit".

 

[drummerguy727]

Thank you everybody for helping me out! The task manager now says that my ram is running at 1600 mhz, so the problem is fixed!

 

[volcanoscout]

Thank you everybody for helping me out! The task manager now says that my ram is running at 1600 mhz, so the problem is fixed!

Awesome - have fun with it!