My ignorance is showing and need help getting the most out of my RAM.

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Hello all,

Yesterday, I upgraded my setup with new RAM and Motherboard. I have a Ryzen 1500x, EVGA GTX 1060, Asus ROG Strix B450-F, two 8GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3600MHz, with an EVGA 500W power supply.

As the title states, my ignorance in fine-tuning my PC is starting to show, and I am having a hard time getting the most out of my RAM. I know that, on the specs of the Motherboard, it says that it supports 64GB of DDR4 at a 3200+Mhz OC. I am not sure if that mean that my board supports 3200Mhz at stock, then can go higher with RAM OCing or if 3200MHz is the most you can get with OCing. On top of that, in my BIOS, it says my RAM is registering just above 2100MHz. I have absolutely no idea about using manual memory settings and how to set my timings in BIOS in order to get the most out of my RAM. If anyone could help me with setting timings, voltage, and OCing my RAM it would be greatly appreciated.

I got the RAM in order to future proof it as much as possible. When I get a more powerful CPU/GPU I wanted to make sure I wouldn't also have to upgrade my RAM as well. If my RAM has too high of a stock frequency for my board to fully support it, that is fine (I think), I would just like to get the most I can while having my board support it as well. It would be awesome if anyone could help me out.

Thank you in advance.
 
Solution
In your BIOS go to the advanced mode and click on the AI Tweaker Tab.
Set the Ai Overclock Tuner from Auto to D.O.C.P. That should get your RAM to its full speed(3200 MHz).
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Awesome. I'll try that out. Thanks I appreciate it. Also, how do I exactly know the frequency my RAM is running at without going into BIOS? Do you know of a software that I can download that will tell me my RAM frequency in game? Want to make sure I'm getting the most of my RAM.
 
You can try CPUZ. You'll see that the DRAM frequency will be shown as half of your frequency. That's because DDR(double data rate), so you take that number from the program and multiply it by 2 and that should be your current memory frequency.
 
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I'm gone for the weekend but I'll have to look into that Monday. Thank you, honestly. I really appreciate your help.