Today's fastest memory, or RAM, may have outpaced what your computer was designed to handle. If this is the case, tweaking your XMP setting in BIOS should give you the speed you paid for.

Learn how to enable dual-channel RAM in BIOS of any motherboard. Enable or turn on dual-channel Memory to have enhanced performance.

Your high-speed desktop RAM runs slower until you manually activate XMP in your motherboard BIOS. Here's how to do it.

Learn how to set up DRAM Frequency in Windows using Extreme Memory Profile or Overclocking options in the BIOS using this guide.

We recommend you merely enable XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles, accessible in the BIOS), which will set your RAM to the highest frequency and lowest latency that your RAM is rated for.

You've unboxed your new high-speed RAM stick. You've located the slots on your motherboard. You've snapped the memory modules into place. Now what?