is my ram running at its full speed?

[garretts43]

I bought a gaming laptop with 8gb (2x4gb) of 1600mhz ram. I dl'ed cpu-z to take a look and it says NB, or DRAM, frequency is 798.1. I assume that's reading off of one ram stick? I am not sure. The channel is Dual.

 

[CTurbo]

It's running at full speed. It always shows the frequency at half.

 

[drtweak]

Read here and you will understand why it reads it as half

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Everything-You-Need-To-Know-About-DDR-DDR2-and-DDR3-Memories/167

 

[Tradesman1]

Misnomer - it read the true freq, since this is DDR (DOUBLE data rate) you take true freq times 2 = Effective, or 798.1 x 2 = 1596.2 (so +/- 1600)