cosair vengeance with gskill

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

So i have a quick question and my ram. So i originally bought a 4gb stick of Gskill Rip Jaws X. Well I got tried of just having 4gb on my machine running wins 7 64 bit with all my steam apps anti virus ext. that and my gtx 770 didnt seem to like the low ram. I didnt want to wait on newegg to ship me another 4gb so i went to best by and bought 8gb of corsair vengeance. I was wanting to know if i can use my gksill chip with my corsair cuz i feel like my gksill is being wasted just sitting here.

The model of the corsair ram is: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B
And the gskill model is: F3-12800CL9S-4GBXL

Im just worried about messing up my mobo or somthing.

My build:
600w EVGA 600B Bronze Plus PSU
AMD FX6300
Nvidia GTX 770
8GB Corsair Vengeance
Windows 7 64Bit

6R1M01R3 · Jun 18, 2014

if both has the SAME cas and timings/instructions, use the same voltage, shouldnt be an issue.

sadams04 · Jun 18, 2014

6R1M01R3 :

+1 The specs are what you are more concerned about. Being the same you have no issues here. If they were mismatched, you would "scale down" to the lower specs between the two.

geofelt · Jun 18, 2014

It is likely to work.
But neither g.skil or corsair will support disparate kits.

You could go ahead and try it, no damage will happen to your motherboard.

sadams04 · Jun 18, 2014

geofelt :

...the manufacturer would ask that the pairs match between the dual channel controllers, but neither will balk about mixing memory in the same system.

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

I found both of them on new egg if this will help.

I bought this kit of corsair: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145345

And i have this chip of gskill - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231718&cm_re=gskill_ripjaws_x-_-20-231-718-_-Product

Whats the worst thing that will happen? Trying not to be so paronid but it took me so long to save money for this pc. hard to buy thing when you got 2 kids.

6R1M01R3 · Jun 18, 2014

as long as you don't mix them like: a dual channel config of corsair+gskill instead of using the both sticks of the same model in each dual channel config, no issues.

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

You lost me.....lol...i still have my mobo manual. should tell me there i suppose?

Im using a asus m5a97 R2.0

geofelt · Jun 18, 2014

You have 3 4gb sticks.

I would install the corsair sticks first, one in each channel.
Your motherboard manual will tell you where to install just two sticks.
Run memtest86+ to exercise the ram. I would expect no problems.
Then install your g.skil stick. Again, you motherboard manual will tell you where to install the third stick.
The last stick will run in slower single channel mode, but the benefits of added ram will be worth it.

Exercise again with memtest86+. It is a free download to a usb, cd or (gasp! floppy)

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

Ok so i look at the mobo manual and it only shows how to use 1 stick config, 2 stick and 4 stick. on my mobo i have a(starting from left to right looking at the mobo.

A black dimm slot that is empty
A blue dimm slot that has a 4gb corsair already in it.
A black dimm slot that empty
A blue dimm slot that has a 4gb corsair already in it.

Memtest86+ has already been preformed on the corsairs and the gskill. but not with all ram chip in it.

geofelt · Jun 18, 2014

I would take a guess and install the g.skil stick in the slot closest to the cpu first.

If you get any issue, try the other one.

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

Hmm im not sure i tried googling to config but no luck...

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

Anybody know what the 3 dimm config for this mobo?

voxgm · Jun 18, 2014

Anyone at all..

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