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AMD memory speed issues
I have an intel skylark and a simple tester PC Pitstop: Free PC Scans and Tune-up Utilities shows ram speed top 1%.
I have an older AMD fx-8350 on an Asus Sabertooth R2 board. It runs fine but the ram speed is only top 30%.
So seeing that the memory was ordinary I purchased brand new memory "2133" . The manual says the board will take up to "2400" so we are fine there. In bios I choose the "2133" profile and booted up. ( I knew to do this from the manual and from this forum. ).
the machine still works fine but the top ram speed is still only top 30%. In other words the machine recognizes the faster ram but chooses to run it at a lower speed about the same as the lower rated ram I replaced.
And it not any fault the new memory it top end and I tried another batch lower ram speed with same result.
Any advice to get the ram speed up to the recognized "2133" would be appreciated.
Details are: windows 10 new installation on AMD machine fx-8350. MB is Asus Sabertooth FX-8350 R2. The faster ram I just bought is Kingston HyperX Savage 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 2133MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM XMP (HX321C11SRK2/16)
the fastest per the pcpitstop test the new "2133" DDR3 ram will run is: 23,032 which equals top 30%. In contrast my Skylake computer runs its DDR4 ram at "48,563".
I need specific intstructions not something vague like "try overclocking."