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![After about a whole day of dealing with the worst bios ever and weirdest system reaction to ram settings we got my ram to say in the task manager it's 3200 mhz After about a whole day of dealing with the worst bios ever and weirdest system reaction to ram settings we got my ram to say in the task manager it's 3200 mhz](https://preview.redd.it/hkztja45g0q71.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ca7b8bb0fce66e4964ada55c62d90bcfe415aab3)
After about a whole day of dealing with the worst bios ever and weirdest system reaction to ram settings we got my ram to say in the task manager it's 3200 mhz
![Question - 16GB RAM installed but 8GB Question - 16GB RAM installed but 8GB](https://i.imgur.com/SbLFtFcl.png)