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I am sorry if this has been covered in a lot of other threads I just want to be sure it aplies to my case.

I want to know if I can run Dual Channel with:
1x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB, 1600MHz, DDR3
1x Kingston HyperX Fury 4GB, 1600MHz, DDR3

My setup is:
CPU: i3 4150 3.5GHz
MB: ASRock H81M-VG4
 
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Looking closer at these two i think i change my mind to no.. one is Cl 10 the other is CL 9 and one uses 1.65 v and the other uses 1.5 volts. I think you would be courting trouble trying to get these to work properly.
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Looking closer at these two i think i change my mind to no.. one is Cl 10 the other is CL 9 and one uses 1.65 v and the other uses 1.5 volts. I think you would be courting trouble trying to get these to work properly.
 
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Yay! What do I win? I wanna cookie.

 
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To use dual-channel, a matching pair needs to match in:

1. Capacity (e.g. 4 GB). Certain Intel chipsets support different capacity chips in what they call Flex Mode: the capacity that can be matched is run in dual-channel, while the remainder runs in single-channel.
2. Speed (e.g. PC3-12800) - If speed is not the same, the lower speed of the two modules will be used. Likewise, the higher latency of the two modules will be used.
3. Same CAS Latency (CL)
4. Number of chips and sides (e.g. two sides with four chips on each side).
5. Matching size of rows and columns.
 
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So the answer is still no! Good list tho.. you can have 1/2 my cookie.

 
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kolho

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First thank you all for the ultra fast reply. And second I know that it's best to get the exact same (or perfectly a kit), but I didn't know that I would have enough money so I bought only one stick. And because my luck is just that good even though I bouth that RAM like two weeks ago now the store doesn't sell them anymore and I can't find them in any store that I have availabe. So ultimately if I use those two what would happen? I mean would it put stress to the MB or something like that or the worst is that I don't get Dual Channel, but only Single Channel with 8GB of total RAM.
 
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If you try to put two different ram kits, with 2 different timings and two different voltages on the same motherboard you could burn out your memory and/or damage the motherboard. If you only bought it two weeks ago, can you take it back?
 
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kolho

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Thanks again for the help. I was able to dig up a computer site from somewhere that has that same RAM. Let's hope they actually have it. And if they don't I guess I'll either have to try returning the one I have or just keep it like it is.
 
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