Clocking memory to 1600?

[PadForce]

Hi all, I received my computer yesterday with 1600Mhz ram and have read on other threads that the ram will actually be at 1333. Can anybody point me towards a decent step by step process to getting the ram back to 1600? I understand that the performance will be minimally differrent, it is more just the fact that having paid for the 1600 I would like to actually use it!

Also, I have a GTX 670 and the clock speed in my EVGA monitoring program is 925Mhz. I thought this was supposed to be factory overclocked but reading Blindhamsters thread I am wondering if this is just showing the idle clock speed if it utilises the full speed under load. If someone can let me know what I should be seeing that would be great.

Many thanks,

PadForce

 

[keynes]

Also, I have a GTX 670 and the clock speed in my EVGA monitoring program is 925Mhz. I thought this was supposed to be factory overclocked but reading Blindhamsters thread I am wondering if this is just showing the idle clock speed if it utilises the full speed under load. If someone can let me know what I should be seeing that would be great.

Hi,
Did you buy the GTX 670 from somewhere else or is it a palit GPU?

 

[blindhamster]

from reading up on the 670, 925 is their standard clock, and they have a 'boost' that gets it up to 1200ish apparently, I'd advise testing it using the msi application that buzz linked to in my thread to see what it runs at when you do

 

[PadForce]

Sorry I bought it from PCS so it is a Palit (not jetstream).

Good idea on the MSI app.

 

[baron75mk2]

If your ram is reading 1300mhz in the bios , just enable XMP in the bios & this will Put it back to 1600mhz ( im the same although its of little to no difference to 1300mhz , i want 1600mhz as that's what i paid for , its just that you have to enable XMP to get it back on ASUS boards at leased)

As far as the GPU is concerned , http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-670/specifications

It states the Core is 915mhz on a standard 670 , yours is 925mhz , so i would say it is factory overclocked , thing is its not always overclocked massively with nvidia because of heat & stability issues .
Take my Gainward Phantom 3 GTX 580 for example , standard GTX580 core is 772mhz , but the factory overclocked gainward is 783mhz , not a lot but in fact factory overclocked all the same.

you get bigger factory overclocks (or overclocks in general with radeon as they over clock better & don't heat up so badly as nvidia counterparts in general)