Mixing 2 different sets of ram?

Fabio Kerstens

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Hello, I've registered just to ask this question.

I'm thinking of buying an upgrade kit, the z97 gaming 5 motherboard, along with an I5 4690k, and 8 gigabytes of ram, it's all part of one upgrade kit, coming at 460 euros, wich i'm interested in because I wanna upgrade from an AMD FX6350 cpu to an Intel cpu.

Now, I still have 8 gigs of ram (2 sticks) wich are corsair vengeance ram sticks, both sticks are 4gigs so that's 8 together.

Would there be any Issue if let's say, I put all 4 sticks in? Would it not work? Or would it work and bottleneck my ram speed? Would my system just bluescreen? Or just not start up at all, can someone please help me with this? I'm dying to now since 16 gigs of ram sounds so appealing ;).

EDIT: Excuse me, this is the Kit, I forgot to put a link up. http://www.alternate.be/ALTERNATE/Upgrade-Kit-MSI-Z97-GAMING-5-i5-4690K-8-GB/html/product/1164745?event=search
 
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It's not going to break anything, and it may or may not work with the old DRAM, at worse it won't boot. Give it a try and let us know what happens, if they don't want to play together give us the model numbers of the DRAM and we can try some adjustments to see if we can get them to play together nicely

Tradesman1

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It's not going to break anything, and it may or may not work with the old DRAM, at worse it won't boot. Give it a try and let us know what happens, if they don't want to play together give us the model numbers of the DRAM and we can try some adjustments to see if we can get them to play together nicely
 
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Fabio Kerstens

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Alright, if I do decide to get that upgrade kit soon, I'll assemble my computer all over, clean everything up nicely and test if the ram works, and I'll post back with the results !

Thanks for the quick answer by the way :) !