Lenovo k430 ram upgrade bios issue

I've just installed 32gb of 1600 Corsair ram in my Lenovo k430 that came with 16gb 12800.
The ram was recognized at firt boot but the cpu-z app reports a lower speed (pc3-10700) much lower than the prevous ram (pc3-12800).
I've entered the bios at boot but i didn't see anything where i can set the right type of ram.
Can you help me please?
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Hi Locutus,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to inform you that the computer will support complete 32GB of RAM/Memory only if each slot is installed with 8GB RAM, below are images for its combination information and its RAM specifications.
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Do post us back for further queries.
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Shiva Kumar
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To be honest, this post supposed to be a private message to Svet, but turned out a newbie like me who just joining the forum is not allowed to send PM...so apology if this questions are being asked so many times already:
Dear svet,
Really need your help in clarifying something, to make it short here are my questions:
First here are my PC Specifications:
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While waiting for Svet to respond, I will tell you that BSOD 050 is not enough DRAM V. being applied. It's rather a shame you didn't open a thread in the regular part of the forum, or the OC section of the forum asking for assistance 'before' flashing an Ivy support UEFI/BIOS.
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Thank you for the reply...forget to delete the "dear Svet" part as it was copied from once private message intended
To be honest, I see myself rather as a silent reader than an active poster...so I would really try to avoid posting due to English isn't my first language....if that even make sense...
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I have followed OC guide and benchmark in other forum which show each of its poster their OC settings and result (specifically i5 2500k series), and I have tried around 1 week to safely say that my unfortunate chip can only handly a stable 24/7 4.2GHz in that volt...i'm so lucky
and for XMP volt, I have no idea to be honest, I just enable it in the bios, will really look at it later on...
tl'dr thank you so much for the new insight of how to solve the 0x50! really appreciate it....If i can remember correctly, I have tried to use the default DRAM setting (without using XMP enabled) and still got the 0x50 CTD....but trying your suggestion is still a worth a try...will try this when I get home...thank you!

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