Will this work on my mobo?

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Vuksan

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Hello people,

I had many problems with my pc past few days. Some components died due to lightning strike including one of my ram memory.
I had 2x 4gb Transcend 1333mhz dd3, and couldn't find the same to replace. So I ordered 4gb of Kingston but at 1600mhz.

Will it work with that 4gb 1333mhz, and should I put it in dual channel?
My mobo is MSI ZH77A-G41.

Thanks!
 
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rush21hit

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It will work. But I hope you won't keep it that way for long term use. One of the components will fail much faster. Either the motherboard goes first or the RAM. But the processor will survive any of these events should they occur.
 
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????? Sorry, but this makes no sense at all
 
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rush21hit

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Speaking from experience. I once had an old DDR2 motherboard. Both RAM sticks are mixed. The mobo dies within weeks. Both RAM sticks and CPU survived.
Many same case all over the internet if you care to notice. Some component survive and some other dies to a varying degree but start with the same scenario, mixed RAM stick. On any case, the CPU always survived.

So I wouldn't recommend using such configuration for long period of time. Eventually something will fail.
 
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Often run into older rigs (especially DDR/DDR2) that have been runing mixed sticks for even 10 years and more
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I won't say it 'can't' happen, but I've been in system for over 30 years and have never seen a mobo or CPU failure directly attributed to mixing DRAM (other than idiots installing or pulling DRAM when the rig has power (which usually frys the DRAM also. Most mobo failures are attributed to poor mobos, mishandling and heat buildup (often in cases that never get cleaned out, overvolting something, PSU surges and the like)
 
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rush21hit

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In my case I saw it a lot back then. Starting to get less and less of the same problem lately, but still. Perhaps a bad PSU were partly to blame too, but not all of them happen on bad PSU either.

So just to be safe, I recommend people to only use identical RAM sticks ever since.
 
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