Why is speccy showing my ram speed at half capacity?

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#1 TrooperManaic
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Its showing my ram speed at 667MHZ when its supposed to be at 1333MHZ, I made double sure to check this in the bios and correct the issue.

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Both of my friends show the right speed on theirs, here is an image to one of theirs

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Im lost now because I have absolutly no idea how to fix this, Bios says its working at 1333MHZ but Speccy and other hardware scanning software also tells me the same thing.

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#2 Tezcatlipoca666
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Because speccy shows the real clock speed of your RAM (667Mhz). Since it's double data rate (DDR) RAM however the effective clock speed would be 1333Mhz (667x2). Real speed = 667Mhz & effective speed 1333Mhz.

Everything is in order for your PC. Your friends reading is wrong however.

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#3 TrooperManaic
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OK I thought so, looks like ill have to dig in their bios to see if they got something wrong. I wonder if this is an AMD thing.

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#4 JigglyWiggly_
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3214mhz? Sounds legit
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#5 darksusperia
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^^That.
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#6 TrooperManaic
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I dont know why... But I just realized that.

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#8 kraken2109
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DDR man.

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#9 adamosmaki
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thats how it supposed to show on speccy. DDR 1333 is the effective speed when you are using pairs of memory modules to work on dual mode. There is nothing wrong with that and you dont need to mess with the bios or anything in regard to that matter
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#10 danygo1996
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3214mhz? Sounds legitJigglyWiggly_

Yeah... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-rUCwLoQ0