

Alternatively, drop to the command line and install it from there (it has the package name cpu-x, which is easy to remember). Search for ‘CPU-X’ in your system’s package manager or software store. Your Linux distro should have it pre-packaged and ready to install. It’s really easy to install CPU-X on Linux. It surfaces up sizeable set of system info that should be enough to satisfy even the most stat-hungry users out there. To access the CPU-X CLI (after you have installed the app) run cpu-x -ncurses in any modern terminal emulator.Īnd that’s CPU-X in a nutshell: a fantastic free Linux alternative to CPU-Z for Windows. CPU-Z will automatically detect your computers RAM and provide information about its size, type, speed, and timings. It offers a beautifully rendered ncurses UI that’s just as informative as the GTK UI, and dead simple to navigate. In our case, we had to check the physical sticks as the actual name is Patriot Viper Xtreme.On the subject of hidden features, if you’re a fan of command-line apps you should definitely try CPU-X from the command line. Using the manufacturer and part number provided by CPU-Z is often enough to be able to look up your RAM’s specs online and see what speed it should be running at. The advice doesn’t apply to laptops, which may have only one or two slots. So check inside your PC and move the sticks around if they’re not in optimal locations. This is because having one stick in each channel leads to better performance than having two sticks operating on the same channel. That’s why the manual will usually tell you to install one stick in “A2” and the other stick in “B2”, such as in the middle example below, rather than next to each other. The typical setup is two sticks, and these should be installed so they’re on separate channels. Very fast memory doesn’t make much sense on a Ryzen 3000 CPU As we mentioned above when looking at the latency results, we see one of the quirks of AMD Matisse CPUs reveal itself above DDR4-3600. In Figure 1, you can see the current DRAM Frequency is 1466. First, the Memory tab, which shows the current DRAM Frequency in the Timings section. No se si es normal que en el apartado SPD del CPU-Z ponga que mi memoria tiene un máximo de 1501 MHz, y luego en la pestaña MEMORY me dice que la frecuencia es de 1197. There are two tabs in CPU-Z that are useful here. This will tell you which slots to install memory depending on the number of sticks you have. You can use the free CPU-Z utility to see this information. This basically means that whatever speed you have when you install the RAM for the first time is the SPD speed of the device. It is a chip on the RAM module that is identified by the BIOS so the Motherboard can know its characteristics and timings. However, to know is these are the optimal slots, you’ll need to refer to your motherboard manual. SPD speed is the speed that RAM can work right out of the box.
