would i benefit by adding more ram at slower speed?

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dannieboiz

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My MB is an MSI P67A-GD65 has 8gb of Corsair XMS3 DDR 1600 ram I have another pair of 2gb Hynix DDR3 1333 ram laying around.

I understand that the MB would cape the rest of the RAM to 1333 but on the other hand I will have 12gb of Ram VS 8gb. I know a lot of folks frown upon mixing ram speed but would I gain anything by doing this?
 
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check your task managers as you're doing stuff on your pc. Do you use more than 8GB and have stuff swapping out to a page file. Then yes, it will benefit because even though it's slower at 1333, 1333 is still faster than the page file access on the hard drive. If you don't use more than 4GB, then meh, don't bother.
 
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Tradesman1

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It all depends on what you do and how you do it - if you multi-task (have numerous Windows/apps running at once or use large data sets then yes you can benefit from the additional DRAM and in many cases see great benefits....running single app benchmarks is great for reviews but when you have people in the real world running something like a DTP program and have their imaging program open and other apps then not only does the extra come in havndy at times it becomes downright needed
 
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Tradesman1

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When you mix the DRAM, it will go to the mobos default, prob 1066/1333 - if any problem with default or if it goe to 1066, set them to 1333 9-9-9-26, 2T and DRAM voltage 1.55, if any problem may need to raise VCCIO voltage a tad, let me know if any problems
 
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