[SOLVED] Is my Ram running at the correct speeds?

[Soloontop]

So, I was watching videos overclocking and making sure your memory is on the correct speeds by using XMP. I had went into my bios and saw that the recommended speeds for my ram was 1600 mhz, also I went into cmd as an administrator and used the command "wmic MEMORYCHIP get BankLabel, Capacity, DeviceLocator, MemoryType, TypeDetail, Speed" and that also showed 1600 as the speed but on task manager it says that my ram is running at 800mhz.

I have ddr3 ram ( not sure what frequency ), it was a prebuilt computer, 2 sticks of ram in slots 1 and 3. Motherboard is ASROCK 970M PRO3

Since it is 2 sticks of ram could it be that both sticks are 800mhz which add to 1600 and that's why it only says 800 mhz? Or is the option to overclock the ram to 1600mhz the correct way?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Check with CPU-Z instead.
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
Check tabs - memory and spd. Post screenshots (upload to imgur.com and post link).

DDR - means double data rate. There happens 2 data transfers per clock cycle.
So if actual frequency is 800Mhz, then effective frequency is 2x more.
CPU-Z shows actual frequency. BIOS usually shows effective frequency.

 

[Soloontop]

Check with CPU-Z instead.
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
Check tabs - memory and spd. Post screenshots (upload to imgur.com and post link).

DDR - means double data rate. There happens 2 data transfers per clock cycle.
So if actual frequency is 800Mhz, then effective frequency is 2x more.
CPU-Z shows actual frequency. BIOS usually shows effective frequency.

https://imgur.com/a/RNm6wT8

View: https://imgur.com/a/RNm6wT8

 

[madmatt30]

https://imgur.com/H2l6t0d

View: https://imgur.com/H2l6t0d

You're running at 1600mhz, there's nothing to worry about.

 

[Soloontop]

Check with CPU-Z instead.
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
Check tabs - memory and spd. Post screenshots (upload to imgur.com and post link).

DDR - means double data rate. There happens 2 data transfers per clock cycle.
So if actual frequency is 800Mhz, then effective frequency is 2x more.
CPU-Z shows actual frequency. BIOS usually shows effective frequency.

https://imgur.com/F0H45TU

View: https://imgur.com/F0H45TU

https://imgur.com/6v7JErs

View: https://imgur.com/6v7JErs

 

[Soloontop]

You're running at 1600mhz, there's nothing to worry about.

Alr

You're running at 1600mhz, there's nothing to worry about.

Ok, thanks but I have a question so in my bios there is an option in the OC Tweaker section under the DRAM Timing Configuration, it is on auto but there is options such as 800 mhz and 1600mhz and more, should i leave it on auto or set it to one of them?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Your ram is running at 1600Mhz (effective).
So - all is good.