Unless you manually tune its timings or enable Intels XMP, RAM will always run at slower speeds.

Some RAM is just intended to run at standard speeds.

What Is Intel XMP?

How to enable Intel XMP to make your RAM run at its advertised speeds

RAM must follow the standard speeds set by JEDEC, the Joint Electron rig Engineering Council.

Instead, it will run at the standard speeds.

These will be the RAMs advertised timings.

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Instead, if you have an AMD CPU, you may be able to enable AMPAMD Memory Profiles.

This is AMDs version of Intels XMP.

Compare the timings you see here to the timings your RAM is advertised to run at.

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How to Enable XMP

Go into your computers BIOS to enable XMP.

During the boot-up process, the key may be displayed on your computers screen.

Search in the BIOS and look for an option named XMP.

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It may be in overclocking options section, even though it is not technically overclocking.

Activate the XMP option and choose a profile.

(In some cases, you may just have one option to Enable or Disable.)

You should just be able to select Profile 1 and be done with this.

you’ve got the option to also just boot back into Windows and open CPU-Z again.

source: www.techworm.net