I recently installed 32 GB of RAM in my system (using 2 sticks) and enabled the XMP profile. However, when I checked in CPU-Z, it only shows 1600 MHz instead of the expected 3200 MHz that the RAM is rated for. As someone who's pretty new to this, I'm a bit confused about whether I did it right or not. Any advice would be helpful!
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It's totally normal! When you see 1600 MHz, that's actually the base speed, but because you're using DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM, it effectively runs at 3200 MT/s. So your XMP is working perfectly! If you want to double-check, just open Task Manager, go to Performance, then Memory, and you should see the correct speed there.
Thanks for clarifying! I was worried something might be wrong.