PoisonWolf
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Sometimes motherboards don't read memory specifications correctly when they see them. If your memory is rated for 1600mhz and 8-8-8-24, then you can set those in the motherboard.
Personally though, if it were me, I'd stick with only lowering the timings. By changing the memory speed, you could be overclocking your CPU's speed and making your system unstable.
Read up on overclocking before you change any of those. Not saying you should overclock, but that subject will perhaps help you understand why your motherboard lowered the memory's clock speed. It could be because the CPU's multiplier, FSB speed (that's what those athlon's use, eh?), and memory clock didn't have a common denominator.
Bleaktrotter,
Thank you for that informative message. However, I did figure out why it was underclocked. I read the specifications again, and it's actually 1600 (O.C) / 1333 / 1066, etc. But for now, I've set it back to AUTO and returned to 1333. I'm currently reading up on how to overclock the CPU only. I'm still not too sure on which voltage settings need to be changed.
Cheers.