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Cooneyboii

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Hey guys , Last year i bought myself 1x4GB of corsair vengeance RAM and i was planning on getting the other 4gb this summer as i would have more spare time to play games!
1. The question i am asking is that if i was to get another 4Gb stick of the same memory and slotted it in would it work okay as I've been reading up and it seems you run into a bunch of stability issues.
2. Could i by-pass these issues if instead of running the 2 sticks in a dual channel configuration i have them both in single channel configs?
 
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Mixing memory is hit-and-miss, you never know for certain until you try it. With run-of-the-mill DIMMs (ex.: 1600-10-10-10) though, my personal experience is ~90% chance that it will work.

Your chances with one DIMM per channel are likely better than putting both DIMMs on the same channel: running each DIMM on its own channel eliminates the possibility of bus loading issues between the two DIMMs and the CPU can still run them in interleave mode if they are not good enough matches for normal dual channel operation.
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Mixing memory is hit-and-miss, you never know for certain until you try it. With run-of-the-mill DIMMs (ex.: 1600-10-10-10) though, my personal experience is ~90% chance that it will work.

Your chances with one DIMM per channel are likely better than putting both DIMMs on the same channel: running each DIMM on its own channel eliminates the possibility of bus loading issues between the two DIMMs and the CPU can still run them in interleave mode if they are not good enough matches for normal dual channel operation.
 
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That's generally the best approach, then no worries about returns, restocking fees, lost time and the like, with old can try it, if it plays then it's a bonus, put it in another rig, or sell and recoup some of your expenditure
 
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