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SPD Speed HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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SPD stands for Serial Presence Device and is a small chip on the memory module that communicates with the BIOS serially to tell the BIOS what the memory settings should be. In your case 1600Mhz at 1.5V
Often BIOS's do not understand frequencies above 1333Mhz or 1600Mhz, and so you have to enter the desired frequency, voltage and latency settings yourself which in your case will be 2133Mhz 1.6V 11-11-11-30 2N latency.

pjmelect said:
SPD stands for Serial Presence Device and is a small chip on the memory module that communicates with the BIOS serially to tell the BIOS what the memory settings should be. In your case 1600Mhz at 1.5V
Often BIOS's do not understand frequencies above 1333Mhz or 1600Mhz, and so you have to enter the desired frequency, voltage and latency settings yourself which in your case will be 2133Mhz 1.6V 11-11-11-30 2N latency.



So my RAM won't run at 2133MHz out of the box it will run at the SPD speed and if i want to fully utilize the 2133MHz i
will have to manually set in the BIOS.

Absolutely correct. The JEDEC standard is DDR3-1333 CL9 and DDR3-1600 CL11. These are the maximum values any memory can AUTO default to. For anything higher or more performance like your memory kit, you must manually input settings for the RAM, or enable the enhanced performance profile such as XMP/DOCP/EOCP.

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