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Dedicated server RAM throttled
I bought a 7950x dedicated server at a new provider and noticed the geekbench score was about 15% lower than expected, upon further inspection I noticed the RAM is running at 3600 despite being DDR5-5600. Is this normal for the provider to throttle the RAM like this?
At my previous provider the geekbench score was actually a bit higher than expected so I never had a reason to look into things like this before.
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What is your RAM? It will reduce to 3600 if they're using something like 192GB/256GB. If you want the fastest speed take out RAM and make it 2x32GB, 2x48GB or something.
nothing your provider can do about it, it's a limitation of the hardware.
Most server motherboards (like the Asrock Rack B650D4U) set the speed to 3600 when 4x DIMMs are in use.
It's 2x DIMMs
Well I just spoke to Mevspace support and apparently that's just their policy. Didn't want to name provider before in case it was a mistake. Quite disappointing.