Hello, Newbill!
Of course I am not laughing! Lol.. Looking into buying KOMPUTERBAY 32 gigs myself. This is what happened to me. Just received my XPS 8500 - exciting. Bought KINGSTON HYPERX 32 GB RAM (8gbx4) to upgrade it right out of the box like you. The RAM only ran at 1333Mhz, because they had it set up that way be default - one needs to be able to change the timings in order to use the 1600MHZ, unfortunately that cannot be done in the DELL bios. Do you still have all of those Komputerbay stix in your machine? If that is so, is it running at 1600 or 1333? I am interested in the performance when you have all 4 stix in. When I was matching with the original RAM the bios was actually saying it was running at 1600 - perhaps because the original RAM was setting all of them to run at 1600?! Anyhow, looking to have 32 GB in my machine soon!!! Do you have the link to the exact item you bought from Amazon? If you have 32 GB, using the bios and CPUID, is it running at 1600 MHZ? :) Best wishes, Geo