Question Single stick of 3200MHz RAM - - - is it running at the correct frequency ?

[hydrohomie123]

Hello everyone.

So, I only have a single stick of RAM on my PC which is a DDR4 3200Mhz. But it shows up in CPU-Z as 1599.6Mhz and on Task Manager it says the Speed is at 3200Mhz.
I have currently set the XMP Profile to Profile 1 in my BIOS.

I would like to know your guy's thoughts if this is correct.

 

[JaAntonio]

Hello! Your ram speed is completly fine. DDR always shows half of the real frecuency you running. In this case 1600mhz x2= 3200mhz.
You have enabled XMP cause it shows the 1600mhz clocks. Try yourself and disable xmp and open cpu-z again, you will see that the frecuency drops.

 

[Dragos Manea]

Honestly, you will get a lot more performance adding a 2nd stick and using them at base frequency then using xmp to a single one.