boOnZ :
Hello, i'm a new user. I've been trying to set my ram to 1600, i have an maximus 4 extreme motherboard and my ram is Corsair vengeance CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9B (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145346)
I've tried and tried a lot of times, but i was tired and let it go. Now i have time and i wanted to try get them at 1600, please help me.
What really is the issue with the RAM you mention? Can't run it in 1600 MHz?
Run CPU-Z Click memory look for the DRAM Frequency it says: 798.8 MHz usually it fluctuates that's okay. Memory modules used in LGA 1155 sockets board are dual memory
so if you round off 798.8 GHz it would be 800 MHz multiply it 2(bcoz its dual memory) that would be equal to 1600 MHz
DDR3- Double Data Rate 3. I hope I explained it well to you.
In addition you can do this on the BIOS
In your motherboard's BIOS look for the memory settings, enable "XMP" profile.