DDR3 1866 at 540 MHz?

annih

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Hi,

Maybe I don't grasp how this works or I misinterpret CPU-Z's listed information, but: I just bought a new system, but after putting it together first thing I did was open CPU-Z and noticed that it tells me my RAM is running at 540 MHz. With 0.29 that isn't even a valid fraction of 1866 MHz in my eyes. I would've understood 0.33 or 0.5, but that? On the other hand the latencies seem pretty much better than they should be.

Board: GA-X58-USB3 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3571#ov)
CPU: i7-960 (http://ark.intel.com/products/37151/Intel-Core-i7-960-Processor-%288M-Cache-3_20-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI%29)
RAM: F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL (http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=379)

Is there any bottleneck? Or is it supposed to be that way? Am I doing something wrong? Please enlighten me!

Regards,
annih