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Bought and installed, 1600 mhz memory, but it is only running at 1333.

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Jeardawg   10-16-2009 at 10:07:10 AM

Mobo = Gigabyte GA-P55m-UD2 it lists on the gigabyte website as being valid up to 2200mhz

My CPU = an intell i5

and my memory is a set of XMS3 DDR3 1600 coursair, but now that I am up and running my system is listing it as 1333mhz
did I do something wrong or miss something?

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zipzoomflyhigh   10-16-2009 at 01:22:17 PM

Overclock your processor to run your memory at 1600mhz.

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wannabe   10-16-2009 at 05:56:27 PM


'Load Optimized Defaults' in your Bios

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