Optimize settings for RAM on ASUS H97i plus Motherboard

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I'm not an overclocker but I recently built an iTX
I wanted performance without 'load' (power consumption was also an objective) so I got the max recommended RAM bandwidth of 1600 with low latency!
I would like to optimize the the RAM (i.e. not necessarily overclock it) to its potential.
The default settings, on the bios, showed that it was 1333 RAM but I managed to set it to 1600 using XMP setting (i think) but the timing is still at 667Mhz.
Does that matter - I thought that it should be at 800Mhz to optimize?
 

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You will see from the attached screen clip of the Ai Tweaker that it says that the Memory has a MaxBandwidth of 667Mhz
But on the botom left window it sayd that the DRAM Freq is 1595 (this updates slightly in real time)
http://screencast.com/t/celR5j3n0nD


 

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Thank you for this. I've run the CPU-Z and the result for the Memory (tab) shown in the link says 799.9Mhz as DRAM Freq. So may I assume that the RAM is running to it's optimum? (i.e. not wanting to OC just get the most from the hardware without pushing it).