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    Should I be concerned about this ram?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by XxMerlinxX, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. XxMerlinxX

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    I just purchased and installed 4gb of PC2-6400 GSkill Ram on my 1520 and everything's working fine. What I was wondering about was that CPU-Z shows the DRAM Frequency at ~328MHz. Should this be faster? Or is it showing lower because the memory isn't under full load?
     
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    Multiply by 2 since it's DDR2 to get the effective data rate.
    328*2 = 656 = ~667MHz
     
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    Ah ha, lol. Ok, thanks.
     
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    I have some G.Skill PC2-5300, which is rated as 667MHz, that runs around 330-332. I believe it mostly has to do with memory dividers and throttling of the CPU.

    I wouldn't worry about it as long as all the RAM is being correctly seen (i.e. 4GB for x64 and ~3.3GB for 32)
     
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