2133 MHz memory speed instead of 3200 MHz?

Talles L - Aug 16 - - Dev Community

sudo lshw -short -C memory was giving me 2133 MHz, even though my memory is 3.2 GHz.

It turns out you have to enable a setting on your BIOS called XMP (for Intel) or DOCP (for AMD) to get full memory speed.

ASUS BIOS:

MSI BIOS:

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