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Kenindoirus

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Hello everyone!

In my Desktop PC I have a Kingston khx1600c10d3b1/8Gb HyperX Blu and I'm looking to upgrade by adding 8Gb more but my RAM is 2 or 3 years old and at my usual delaers they don't have it, and in the internet they're quite expensive.

So what my usual dealers have is the new Fury Hyperx 8Gb ones just like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-HyperX-FURY-1600MHz-DDR3/dp/B00J8E92M6

Does someone know if I can put them in Dual Channel without issues? Or I'm going to have to tweak something to make it work?
If not which one would you recommend adding?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Yes, you should be ok putting those two cards together. Same basic type of RAM (DDR3 1600), Same cas latency (10), same volatage (1.5V).

It's typically not the 'best' thing to mix RAM cards, so if anything starts going wonky take one of the 2 RAM cards out and see if that is the issue, but you should be fine using these two cards together.

Though just to make sure you never have any RAM problems down the road I do recommend eventually upgrading both sticks to the EXACT same type of RAM if you can. ; )
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Yes, you should be ok putting those two cards together. Same basic type of RAM (DDR3 1600), Same cas latency (10), same volatage (1.5V).

It's typically not the 'best' thing to mix RAM cards, so if anything starts going wonky take one of the 2 RAM cards out and see if that is the issue, but you should be fine using these two cards together.

Though just to make sure you never have any RAM problems down the road I do recommend eventually upgrading both sticks to the EXACT same type of RAM if you can. ; )
 
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Kenindoirus

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Thanks for your answer glamdringfh I'll give it a try and see how it goes.

I'll post my findings here so if someone in the future has the same question maybe it will help.
 
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Very different types of DRAM...What mobo and CPU, if an older model may not even be compatible, the Fury operate off PnP, which didn't get support till the P67 chipset. Also mixing the Fury (PnP based) with 'normal' XMP based DRAM can be rather problematic
 
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Kenindoirus

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Yes I know they may not work correctly, thats why I asked here, maybe someone has tryed it out or maybe by tweaking something we could make it work. But I can't find a 100% sure answer anywhere.

So as far as I can see there's no way to know how the 2 cards will perform together, maybe if I'm lucky they will or maybe not.

Thanks for your information
 
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