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    Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 9:18pm
Testing my new rig on userbenchmark shows that my system is bangin... except for the RAM which it tells me is performing much worse than expected (60th percentile). CPU-Z tells me my RAM is working at 1066mhz, which is far lower than the 3200 RAM I bought.

System parts:
ASRock X470 Taichi mobo
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x cpu
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C14D-32GVR
(https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232230)


I'm no expert at this stuff, so how do I go about getting this RAM up to speed?
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Hey,

i have to ask: Did you activated XMP Profile in BIOS?

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I did not, just straight plug and play. I imagine that's not hard to figure out how to do... then what?
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You have to open the BIOS, search for an option for XMP Profile and have to select the right profile. Thats all.

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If you get your memory working at 3200 MT/s, CPU-Z will show the memory frequency as 1600 MHz. That is correct, the CPU-Z frequency readout is half the transfer rate.

Your 1066 MHz doubles to 2133 MT/s which is the default, non-XMP rate.
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Enabled XMP in the bios, rebooted, and it's working perfectly now. Man things sure have gotten easier over the years... Thanks for the help!
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