Ram clock speed question.

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#1 trasherhead
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Please don't flame me, im not a hardcore pc gamer as og yet. ;)

When I bought the mainboard I have now, a Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, nForce 570 SLI,, I also bought 2 gigs of DDR2 Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 2048MB CL5 ram. From what the info on that site said it was going to run a 800mhz. BUt when I us CPU-Z I get that the ram runs at 380mhz and on the SPD page in the same program it says that it runs at 270 and 400mhz.

Im all confused :( Please help.

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#2 justin4444
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The real clock of the ddr2 is divided by 2. 800mhz is just 400mhz, 667 is just 333mhz, and 533 is 266mhz. DOn't be confused.. :D For additional info, search in the internet!
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#3 trasherhead
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that is... retarded...
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#4 ProudLarry
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that is... retarded...trasherhead
No, its not retarded, its DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM. So you take the speed that its runs at (400MHz) and double it, to get the effective speed (800Mhz).
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#5 SearchMaster
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that is... retarded...trasherhead
lol, this is how the life goes :D
Even in GPU in memory rate got doubled as well to show you the effective speed of it
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#6 justin4444
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that is... retarded...trasherhead

Just deal with it.

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#7 michael098
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You rams clockspeed is 380mhz, but because its DDR (Double Data Rate) the effective clock will be 760mhz. Most software like CPU-Z don't show you the effective clockspeed, but all you need to do is X it by 2. EVEREST will show you the effective clock.