Question Accurate check for RAM frequency

[V0oD0o]

Hi, just a quick question regarding a ram upgrade i recently made. I don't have anything fancy, just 32Gb of DDR 4 3200 now, and after enabling the XMP profile in the bios, I went to check the speed after boot up to verify. If I check in Task Manager, it shows 3200, but when I check on something like CPU-Z or Speccy, I just see the default speed. Is this a limitation of the third party programs to accurately read the frequency, or is there something else I may be missing? Thanks in advance!

 

[Bob.B]

Hi, just a quick question regarding a ram upgrade i recently made. I don't have anything fancy, just 32Gb of DDR 4 3200 now, and after enabling the XMP profile in the bios, I went to check the speed after boot up to verify. If I check in Task Manager, it shows 3200, but when I check on something like CPU-Z or Speccy, I just see the default speed. Is this a limitation of the third party programs to accurately read the frequency, or is there something else I may be missing? Thanks in advance!

What speed does task mgr and speccy show?

 

[SkyNetRising]

If I check in Task Manager, it shows 3200, but when I check on something like CPU-Z or Speccy, I just see the default speed.

Task Manager often is not accurate.
CPU-Z is.
Show screenshots
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Your task manager is most likely showing it correctly.

 

[V0oD0o]

So here are a couple of shots. I'm not sure why I mentioned Speccy, I can't seem to find speed in that one.

https://imgur.com/3GRfvzJ

I am also unsure of what the Uncore Freq means, and I'm not sure I am thinking of it right.

https://imgur.com/H6huTLo

Thanks for the fast replies!

 

[Bob.B]

So here are a couple of shots. I'm not sure why I mentioned Speccy, I can't seem to find speed in that one.

https://imgur.com/3GRfvzJ

I am also unsure of what the Uncore Freq means, and I'm not sure I am thinking of it right.

https://imgur.com/H6huTLo

Thanks for the fast replies!

Cpuz is showing ram speed task mgr is showing data rate.

Double data rate....ddr...is 2x the ram speed....2x1600=3200.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I am also unsure of what the Uncore Freq means, and I'm not sure I am thinking of it right.

Relevant part is DRAM frequency.
Since DDR ram (double data rate) you multiply
DRAM frequency by 2x and get effective DRAM frequency.

2x1600 = 3200mhz.
So your ram is running at 3200mhz.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

All of them are correct! 3200!

 

[SkyNetRising]

So here are a couple of shots.

BTW - you have insane size pagefile - 23GB ! This impacts performance negatively.
Change pagefile settings to custom (not system managed) and
set initial size to 1GB, max 16GB.

You may also want to move pagefile to drive D : , so it doesn't consume write cycles for your NVME drive.
It will last longer.

 

[_D_D]

Your DRAM is running at 1600MHz which is 3200MT/s. For many years MHz was used incorrectly for MT/s (Mega Transfers per second). Things have improved but still not perfect.

 

[V0oD0o]

Wow, I learned quite a bit more about RAM than I knew before. Thanks so much for all of the replies, and I will take the page file settings and fix them up. Thanks again everyone!