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1600 mhz ram speed on dell latitude e6420 i5
good day.
i just installed a 1600 mhz ddr3l ram on my latitude e6420. i found out that bios has clocked it down to 1333 mhz. is there a way or fix to this problem? inorder to run 1600 mhz frequency?
here are some bios details
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A23, 1/4/2016
SMBIOS Version 2.6
here is the ram that i installed
ejn63
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December 18th, 2016 03:00
RAM speed depends on the CPU installed. If this is an i5-2520m or other i5 from that generation, the memory controller aboard the CPU can't run RAM at 1600 MHz.
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December 18th, 2016 09:00
yes its 2520 m. updated with the new bios a23. but according to intel, sandybridge can handle 1600 mhz ram. hopefully dell engineers could fix this
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December 18th, 2016 09:00
Doesn't matter what the platform supports -- that CPU supports a max of 1333 MHz.
ark.intel.com/.../Intel-Core-i5-2520M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_20-GHz