Topic: Upgrading ram - should i leave the old ram in?

Offline benlav

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I currently have some kingston value ram, which has treated me well, but I'm looking at picking up some of this

http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=MEMGSK0361&qr=ec_BFS-B_56

PB have a sale tonight so I can pick this up for $100.

So, that being said, I have 2 x 4gb of slightly slower ram, is it detrimental to leave it in the system and run 16 gbs?

Posted: November 21, 2014, 09:56:20 am

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You've already got slower RAM? I'm not sure how newer mobos operate, but faster RAM would always drop down in speed to match the ratings of the slower RAM. Your slower RAM will be operating as a bottleneck.

Reply #1 Posted: November 21, 2014, 10:28:11 am


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What retardo said, plus running mismatched ram increases your chances of instability.

Reply #2 Posted: November 21, 2014, 11:07:10 am

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cool, thanks, thought that might be the case.

Reply #3 Posted: November 21, 2014, 11:58:38 am

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+1 to Rii and Lii.

Get 16GB of the G.Skill ;)

Reply #4 Posted: November 21, 2014, 02:29:58 pm
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Am running an i7 920 on x58 motherboard with 3x2gb sticks of 1333mhz, and 3x4gb sticks of something else, don't have any stability issues. But then again it's not overclocked or anything.

Buy the big pack, try running all of it and see what happens?


Reply #5 Posted: November 21, 2014, 05:38:52 pm
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