I paid for fast RAM and it was throttled by default for months — one BIOS setting fixed it

Most PC components today are plug-and-play. You install new components, and they simply work as they should at the specified speeds. It's a little complicated with RAM: I realized my 3200 MHz DIMMs were operating at 2133 MHz only a few months later. The thing is, you can't really "feel" slow RAM frequencies during normal usage like you would for,...

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