GA-P55A-UD4P motherboard and CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3

[foxthor11]

Hello,
I currently have the motherboard stated in the title and 2 sets of the 2X2GB sticks of ram stated in the tile installed. I used the program CPU-Z to check my rams DRAM frequency and it syas that it is at 666.2MHz. The ram is suppose to be at 1600MHz. How do I go about changing it? I have been reading online and people say you chane it in the BIOS. Can someone please give me a detailed step by step process of how to change the ram to 1600MHz. Or do you think I should just leave it as it is, or does it matter? I also read online that you might have to change the timing too. So if you could please let me know what to change and how to change my ram to 1600MHz and still be stable please let me know. Thanks

 

[rolli59]

First off all your ram is dual data rate so the effective speed is 1333MHz which is std for your CPU.
You can go into BIOS all explained here in an old article http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bios-a-z,1200.html