Mixing 2 different brands of ram,will it work?

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Not a good idea to mix packages, even of the same exact model, it can be problematic...even more so mixing brands and even more mixing freqs
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You can use different brands as long as they are the same type, bus speed, timing, latency, whether they are EEC or non-EEC etc.

There are many factors, so it is easier to just buy 2 pieces of the same RAM IF you want to run it in dual channel mode. Which you should want to.....much faster.

 
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For mixing speed, set the speed at the slower setting in manual mode; for you 1333. Let the motherboard choose the timings. They don't have to match either spec for your ram. Then test them out with your regular programs, not memtest. If there's a serious problem, windows will let you know with a memory address (usually a bluescreen).

I highly highly suggest you don't do this though, it's something I wouldn't do, can lead to bad things in the future, RAM is quite cheap nowadays anyway
 
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