Help Clarifying some things ( RAM, HDD , XMP )

[andrefilipepaulo]

Hello everybody i am writing this today because i made un upgrade of my pc by buying the MSI 370 PC PRO , the new i3-8100 and also a new case.

The problem is i bought it all about 2 weeks and when i did a test on cpubenchmark i have * results, for the "good" pieces i've just bought as you can see here:

UserBenchmarks: Game 41%, Desk 56%, Work 36%
CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 - 76%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti - 40.5%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) - 96.2%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 1x8GB - 37.3%
MBD: MSI Z370 PC PRO (MS-7B49)

So concerning the RAM it says i should be running the XMP because the ram is running way below expectations, and i have a question, could this be because it's on the wrong slot? i wasn't sure where to connect it and the first time i connected i turned on my pc a window showed up saying it was on the wrong slot etc... so i changed it by putting the ram in the next slot.

And concerning the HDD i connected it on the SATA PORT 2 is there a problem ? Instead of being on SATA PORT 1 ?

Thank you all for the answers i'd like to solve this quickly because im tired of seeing my pc running games at same fps as before ( i3-6100, gtx 1050ti , same ram and same hdd)

 

[13thmonkey]

did you reinstall windows when you swapped the components over.

 

[andrefilipepaulo]

Yes 13thmonkey ofc i did i knew i had to do that but when i reeinstalled windows forgot to clear the recovery parts etc etc just cleared the Disk partition that had the data on it

 

[13thmonkey]

Mobo drivers installed? Memory in dual channel?

 

[andrefilipepaulo]

Mobo drivers installed yeah but the memory in dual slot idk.. where should i connect it can you tell me ?