My PC refused to boot and I had to remove the cell and reset the BIOS. In this forum I read that someone was able to get higher speeds than what the CPU was capable of doing so I'm not sure how reliable that information is.Įarlier on today I tried tweaking with the BIOS, Enabled XMP and set the memory to 3200Mhz. On the AMD website, the CPU has memory upto 3200Mhz. I was wondering why I was never able to get the clock speed at 3200Mhz considering the CPU can support it. In task manager the RAM speed was always stuck at 2667Mhz. Prior to this I had a 8GB DDR4 RAM stick clocked at 3200Mhz (I've got rid of this now).

It's important, and a number you should have in mind, but it doesn't tell the whole story, and if you're looking for an upgrade, you'll be better served by more RAM than faster RAM.Now I got a 1x 16GB DDR4 RAM stick clocked at 3466Mhz. Faster RAM can get expensive quickly, especially as you try to keep CAS latencies low while you keep increasing the speed. Whether it's a worthy upgrade, however, is another story. If you're gaming, however, faster RAM might be able to help you squeeze out a little bit of better performance and a few more frames per second. In most applications, it's also much better to have more RAM than faster RAM as well. CAS latency, for example, can also go up as the data rate increases, and that can actually have a negative impact on performance. The easiest way to put it is 'the faster the data rate, the faster the RAM.' That's not really the be-all and end-all of it, as several factors can impact your RAM's performance.

For example, PC4-25600 memory is rated for 3200MHz, while PC4-28800 memory is rated for 3600MHz. You might also see it listed as a 'PC4' specification, which is the data rate times eight.

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