Ok so I have here a stick of ddr3 1.35v 8gb 1600mhz ram @ Timing 8-8-8-24, cas latency of 8 (N82E16820148655) THEN I have an ALMOST similar stick which is ddr3 1.5v 8gb 1600mhz @ 9-9-9-24, cas latency of 9 (N82E16820148540).
I had ordered the 1st stick you see there just recently on an impulse buy during a sale. The question/problem: is if I can run these in dual channel mode? They are both "Crucial" branded but they have different names, the first one is "crucial tactical" while the 2nd one is "crucial ballistix". I read everywhere that they need to be matching but to what extent?
Can I just simply overclock the first one to 1.5v and keep the mhz, timings, and latency the same while over clocking the 2nd one to the timings of 8-8-8-24 (instead of 9-9-9-24 CL9) and put the cas latency to 8 (i wont have to up the voltage though to get down to 8-8-8-24 right? ultimately... resulting in me having to increase the 1st sticks 1.35v past 1.5v and even further to match the 2nd stick? like say set them both to 1.7v?), then will it run in dual channel mode?
Can I just put the 1.35v and increase it to 1.5v and keep timings, then on 2nd stick just keep same stock 1.5v and put the 9-9-9-24 CL9 down to 8-8-8-24 CL8? then since everything is the same it should run in dual channel right? I just have 2 slots on my motherboard. I am sort of learning as I go so bear with me if it sounds noobish
also I want to note that I havnt received the stick that I just bought on sale yet which is the 1st stick. So I havnt tried it out yet. I just want to be sure though before going through the trouble of shipping one back to return it to get a matching stick.
I had ordered the 1st stick you see there just recently on an impulse buy during a sale. The question/problem: is if I can run these in dual channel mode? They are both "Crucial" branded but they have different names, the first one is "crucial tactical" while the 2nd one is "crucial ballistix". I read everywhere that they need to be matching but to what extent?
Can I just simply overclock the first one to 1.5v and keep the mhz, timings, and latency the same while over clocking the 2nd one to the timings of 8-8-8-24 (instead of 9-9-9-24 CL9) and put the cas latency to 8 (i wont have to up the voltage though to get down to 8-8-8-24 right? ultimately... resulting in me having to increase the 1st sticks 1.35v past 1.5v and even further to match the 2nd stick? like say set them both to 1.7v?), then will it run in dual channel mode?
Can I just put the 1.35v and increase it to 1.5v and keep timings, then on 2nd stick just keep same stock 1.5v and put the 9-9-9-24 CL9 down to 8-8-8-24 CL8? then since everything is the same it should run in dual channel right? I just have 2 slots on my motherboard. I am sort of learning as I go so bear with me if it sounds noobish
also I want to note that I havnt received the stick that I just bought on sale yet which is the 1st stick. So I havnt tried it out yet. I just want to be sure though before going through the trouble of shipping one back to return it to get a matching stick.