ram speed running differently

[Koko9429]

i have upgraded my ram added 2x8 kingston furry (hyper x rebranded) and have had them for a little while now.

i noticed just yesterday that 2 of the sticks are running at 2400mhz and the other 2 state they are running at 3200mhz.

i have been into the bios to see if i can change the xmp profile to set them to 3200mhz, the xmp option is there but it is greyed out and cannot do anything with them?

i am not sure if this has happened because of the  bios update done through hp assistant or they have ran at those speeds  since i have had them,

i decided to check because i have been able to run overwatch 2 at 165fps with no dips but now when lots of things are going on in game im dipping into 120s-130s.

i had also updated to latest nvidia drivers which i have now rolled back to see if that was the problem but still doing the same thing.

any help in the right direction would be appreciated!

tia.

[NonSequitur777]

@Koko9429,

Welcome to our peer-to-peer HP Community Forum!

No, any BIOS update for your OMEN 30L Desktop PC GT13-1000a (207P6AV) as fitted with either a Hana motherboard (SSID: 8876) or an OasisOC motherboard (SSID: 886C) has nothing to do with your issue.

The issues here are twofold: you mixed RAM -which almost always hurts RAM performance, and the RAM you added is getting stuck at its default ("SPD") speed, such as what happened with this Kingston Fury KF3600C17D4/8GX 2x8GB RAM in this HP System OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-1xxx:

Link: HP OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-1xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

Or ditto with Kingston HyperX KHX3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GB in this HP System OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-1xxx:

Link: HP OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-1xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

The same thing happened with these RAM:

Corsair Vengeance RGB CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 2x8GB
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/52602694

G.SKILL F4-3200C16D-16GVSB F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/52881629

etc.

Point is HP (gaming) desktops are rather finnicky when it comes to RAM and achieving max RAM speed and performance. Choose your RAM wisely, so to speak, and don't mix RAM: use same brand, model, and capacity.

Best RAM performance is achieved using HP-branded Kingston RAM:

Kingston HP37D4U1S8ME-16XR 2x16GB
Kingston HP37D4U1S8ME-16XR 4x16GB

However, some OMEN 30L PC GT13-1xxx Users managed outstanding RAM performance with Corsair Vengeance RGB CMW64GX4M4E3200C16 4x16GB RAM:

Link: HP OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-1xxx Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

The question is, how did they do it, because more often than not, RAM like this would get stuck at its default ("SPD") speed, in this case 2133 MHz.

I suppose I would 'stick' with these Crucial RAM options.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777