RAM Speed is at 1066Mhz, but my MOBO can support up to 1600Mhz?

[bokisa12]

Hello,

I recently bought 2x4GB DDR3 Ram sticks, that have a speed of , I believe 2xxxMhz ( I can't remember exactly ) . My motherboard can support only RAM up to 1600Mhz, and that's fine. But, when I go to my BIOS, or I use CPU-Z, it shows that RAM is working at 1033Mhz, and that I can overclock it up to 1333Mhz.

What's the problem?

Thanks in advance.

 

[eldragon0]

Check your MOBO's manual and look for "XMP" profiles. They are default settings selected in the bios based on your RAM that will set the timing and clock speeds at the correct settings for your RAM.

 

[bokisa12]

Check your MOBO's manual and look for "XMP" profiles. They are default settings selected in the bios based on your RAM that will set the timing and clock speeds at the correct settings for your RAM.

Hi, thanks for the response , this is what I found :

Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2 with Intel® Ivy Bridge CPU

I don't really know what that means , but is there any way to clock it at 1600Mhz ?

 

[i7Baby]

Go into bios. Find overclocking. Find memory overclocking. Enable XMP.

 

[bokisa12]

Go into bios. Find overclocking. Find memory overclocking. Enable XMP.

Will try that! Thanks for the responses guys

 

[bokisa12]

Go into bios. Find overclocking. Find memory overclocking. Enable XMP.

Just looked all over the BIOS, can't find Intel XMP anywhere.

 

[eldragon0]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[bokisa12]

What motherboard do you have?

ASROCK H61 Pro BTC

 

[i7Baby]

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H61%20Pro%20BTC/?cat=Specifications says

Supports DDR3 1600/1333/1066 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 1.3 / 1.2 with Intel® Ivy Bridge CPU

So you should be able to enable XMP in bios. Have a look in your motherboard manual.

Is the ram XMP compatible?

 

[eldragon0]

Please see page 34 - 35 of your manual. It should be under oc settings "DRAM Timing Coniguration
Load XMP Setting
Use this to load XMP setting. Coniguration options: [Auto], [Default], [Proile
1] and [Proile 2]. The default value is [Auto].
DRAM Frequency
If [Auto] is selected, the motherboard will detect the memory module(s)
inserted and assign the appropriate frequency automatically."

 

[Tradesman1]

If your DRAM is 2xxx as you say XMP won't work as the mobo only allows up to 1600 and the XMP profiles will be for 2xxx, try setting the DRAM manually to 1600, 9-9-9-26, 1.5 and try - if still problems let us know the CPU and model #(S) of the DRAM and can offer prob better settings

 

[bokisa12]

Thanks everyone, I'll try what you all suggested :

eldragon0 - The pages 34 and 35 are on French. Yeah, the RAM is set to [Auto] in BIOS, at 1066Mhz.
i7Baby - Looked all over the manual and the BIOS, can't find XMP anywhere. Will have another look.
Tradesman1 - Yeah DRAM is 2xxxMhz , I'll try what you suggested.

 

[bokisa12]

If your DRAM is 2xxx as you say XMP won't work as the mobo only allows up to 1600 and the XMP profiles will be for 2xxx, try setting the DRAM manually to 1600, 9-9-9-26, 1.5 and try - if still problems let us know the CPU and model #(S) of the DRAM and can offer prob better settings

What exactly does 9-9-9-26, 1.5 mean , and where do I set it ?
Also, I can't overclock the RAM manually to 1600Mhz, the max is 1333Mhz.

Thanks

 

[i7Baby]

9-9-9-26 is the timings. You can set them manually in bios. Read your motherboard manual section on Bios.

Maybe try buying 1600 rated ram. And sell your 2133 (or whatever)

 

[bokisa12]

9-9-9-26 is the timings. You can set them manually in bios. Read your motherboard manual section on Bios.

Maybe try buying 1600 rated ram. And sell your 2133 (or whatever)

Thanks, I'll try to set that , and if that doesn't work, I'll probably buy new RAM.

I bought these 2x4GB 2133Mhz (yeah, that's the "clock") dirt cheap, and I was all like "why not?", but if the method above doesn't work, I'll sell it, and buy new 1600Mhz RAM.

Thanks everyone for the nice responses, I'll now close the thread.
Thanks again.

Cheerz.

 

[Lance Gee]

May be an option In the bios for 'dram multiplier' or something named similar although not all bios/mobos have this

 

[Tradesman1]

Then try 1333 at 9-9-9-27, 1.5 the 9-9-9-27 are the DRAM timings and 1.5 is DRAM voltage