- Apr 18, 2013
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Hi, I just got help from here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2137349/prepare-watch-dogs.html
I have just received this set of RAM: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/patriot-memory-pv38g160c9k
And I just found out what my actual motherboard is: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P7P55M/
And the RAM I had in my machine until now has a sticker on it which I assume labels the make and model as: crucial BP1138Y.F9. What I assume is rating information that I don't fully make sense of is also listed: 256MX64 DDR3 PC3 - 10600 UNBUFF
For some reason, if I try to boot with all 4 sticks in, it gets stuck on the starting windows screen, but with one pair or the other it is fine. I assume it something to do with voltages and other BIOS settings. Is there a hard and fast way to get all the RAM to work together (I don't like the idea of 4GB of ram sticks sitting around doing nothing), or if it is system dependant, then like, what SORT of settings should I tweak to ensure SOME kind of functionality. I read that different brands and speeds of RAM will in total, be limited by the slowest, is my old ram that much slower than my new set that it would be not worth using both sets at once?
Please let me know if I could provide any more information so you can help me out here. I imagine having all sticks in WILL slow it down compared to my new patriot RAM's potential, but is the slowdown really significant? I would happily accept a slight loss in speed, for more usable memory. I would like to use it all if it is possible and reasonable, as I often do a lot of memory heavy activities like 3D and 2D design and game making, video and photo editing, large memory overhead in browser due to hoarding of tabs (I have a data hoarding problem ;P ) and of course, games.
I will be grateful for help and advice, thank you in advance! =]
-WBC
I have just received this set of RAM: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/patriot-memory-pv38g160c9k
And I just found out what my actual motherboard is: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P7P55M/
And the RAM I had in my machine until now has a sticker on it which I assume labels the make and model as: crucial BP1138Y.F9. What I assume is rating information that I don't fully make sense of is also listed: 256MX64 DDR3 PC3 - 10600 UNBUFF
For some reason, if I try to boot with all 4 sticks in, it gets stuck on the starting windows screen, but with one pair or the other it is fine. I assume it something to do with voltages and other BIOS settings. Is there a hard and fast way to get all the RAM to work together (I don't like the idea of 4GB of ram sticks sitting around doing nothing), or if it is system dependant, then like, what SORT of settings should I tweak to ensure SOME kind of functionality. I read that different brands and speeds of RAM will in total, be limited by the slowest, is my old ram that much slower than my new set that it would be not worth using both sets at once?
Please let me know if I could provide any more information so you can help me out here. I imagine having all sticks in WILL slow it down compared to my new patriot RAM's potential, but is the slowdown really significant? I would happily accept a slight loss in speed, for more usable memory. I would like to use it all if it is possible and reasonable, as I often do a lot of memory heavy activities like 3D and 2D design and game making, video and photo editing, large memory overhead in browser due to hoarding of tabs (I have a data hoarding problem ;P ) and of course, games.
I will be grateful for help and advice, thank you in advance! =]
-WBC
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