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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and how many of you have ever found yourself in a situation where you build your brand-new computer and you've got that nice high speed ram 2600 megahertz 2800 megahertz or even something like a 20 133 megahertz ram and you boot it up and you go into BIOS so you go into Windows and you take a look at your ram speed and you see that disappointing 1333 megahertz well today we're going to find out how to make your ram actually run and it's advertised speeds that's right guys today we're going to talk about memory speed and how to get that advertised speed out of your DIMM sticks whether you're in an Intel or an AMD system now first things first you have to understand how the memory controllers actually work to understand what we're about to do today now first of all the memory speeds that you see advertised on most modules are actually called an egg's MP profile which in itself is an overclock of the internal memory controller or the IMC inside of your CPU that is why your system actually boots at a default 1333 because that is the default speed so in essence you're pretty much doing an overclock of your memory controller to get the speeds that you're being advertised on your dims the dim just says that it's actually been tested up to that speed and has been stable in annexin-v profile at those timings in those speeds but there's no guarantee that you're actually going to get that kind of speed so going into this there's two things you have to understand one those speeds are an overclock of the IMC doesn't mean your CPU is going to technically be able to run those speeds chances are it'll work but there's no guarantees and number two being the more you overclock your cpu the less likely you are to be able to achieve those superfast memory speeds and 2 adds a lot of strain on the IMC when you start overclocking both at the same time so with that said let's go ahead and dive right into my MSI in power we'll take a look here at exactly how to change those memory speeds for you now keep in mind every motherboard is different every UEFI is different every BIOS is different so you're going to have to consult your manual to find the settings that I'm looking at here today on my MSI and power now in most systems to get into BIOS all you have to do is just kind of mash the Delete key as you're going through your boot process here and set about there press Delete to run bios and here we are now we're running all of the default settings right here as you can see we've actually got 3.5 gigahertz on my 4770k and if we go here into the OC and that's where you're going to find your memory speeds because as I mentioned it's actually an overclock to get faster ram speed even the advertised XMP you're going to go down to the OC tab or wherever the memory controller settings are located on your bios remember please look up your manuals and you're going to head on over here to the right and you're going to find wherever your DRAM settings own so here we are here's our DRAM settings DRAM reference clock is auto DRAM frequency is auto adjusted ram frequency 1333 there it is right there an extreme memory profile XMP is disabled now if i want to get the advertised 1600 megahertz that's actually the default ram speed of the a data ram i have in here i could simply go enabled as you can see we switch to 1600 megahertz right there so now we'll do oh and here's the voltage and the timing so it's a nine nine 9 2014 1 point 5 volts which is the default and then you've pretty much got everything right there now you've got mem try it which is kind of a built-in memory overclocking profile for MSI we're going to kind of ignore that and we're going to do right now is we're just going to go ahead and reboot into our rear reboot the BIOS system we're going to go back in and make sure those systems actually took effect okay so we've rebooted our system and as you can see now we do actually have the 1600 megahertz ram showing now in the system which means it would also show in Windows we are running our XMP profile which means the optimal timings and the optimum frequency of your ram but you don't have to stop there you could technically overclock this farther we're going to go a dram frequency as you can see we've got this motherboard supports up to 3200 megahertz of ddr3 but we can just kind of go up in increments at a time run some stress tests and find our maximum I found that ddr3 on this a data sticks these 1600 megahertz sticks actually run stable at 2100 and 33 so I could set that reboot it we'll see if we even get into BIOS and if we do then you can do a mm test and then test your memory stability from there you're good to go so as you can see we just tell booted into 20 133 megahertz ram at stock stock voltage right now in fact it would probably fail the mem test we've got to bump up the voltage on my ram a little bit too but that kind of goes into a much more in-depth memory overclocking tutorial which hopefully we'll do at a later time but one thing you need to keep in mind though as you start bumping up the memory or the CPU overclock for instance this CPU only likes to run at 4.4 we are then able to we would want to actually adjust our memory speeds independent find your stable CPU speed then find your stable memory speed and then go from there so overclock your cpu first leave it at default 1333 and then overclock your ram independently once you find your stable overclock on your cpu once your ram becomes unstable or you start getting blue screens then you're going to want to back off the RAM slightly probably one setting on your speed setting or your speed list there and then there you go so guys have been chased you sense I hope this has helped you understand why your memory is booting at a much slower speed than the memory that you bought so don't get mad don't think that your memory sticks are bad just go ahead and go into your BIOS and start tinkering you really can't do much damage unless you start cranking the voltages up way too high and as long as we leave the voltages alone play around with it all you want it doesn't work clear your CMOS and start over guys Ben J's two cents take the time to go in there and mess with your settings because there's a lot of free power in there that you guys may be missing out on for the sake of just being afraid to click some buttons don't be afraid to get in there and tinker guys that's the moral of this video that's that's what we're talking about today get in there and mess with your junk play with your BIOS as well guys when we get on out of here it's been Jase dissents following Twitter and I hope to see in this