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Question

Speccy help?

Sep 11, 2016 12:07PM PDT

Hi! Could somebody tell me if I have to multiply x2 the RAM speed given in Speccy? I have an AMD Lenovo Y700 Gaming Laptop with 8GB DDR3 Dual channel RAM at 1600 MHz . Speccy reports it at 798 MHz, though. Is that normal?
Thanks! Happy PS: task manager reports the speed as 800mhz. Am I still fine?

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While I need to know why here's the short version.
Sep 11, 2016 12:25PM PDT

DDR2 and it's kind get feed a base clock rate. The data rate is double that so many new to this area confuse data rates versus clock rates.

Notice your 1600 MHz didn't finish the sentence?

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Sep 11, 2016 2:29PM PDT

My RAM is DDR3. As I said, do I have to x2 the RAM speed in Speccy? Anyway, is my RAM operating at the right speed of 1600mhz?

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It's technical.
Sep 11, 2016 2:40PM PDT

You have two speeds in DDR RAM. DDR stands for double data rate.

So a clock rate is one thing and the data rate (speed) is twice that.

So yes.