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Lets say i have three 4gb ram sticks and one 2gb ram stick, will it still work as 14gb of ram or do they all need to be the same?
Ram stick configuration
- Thread starter Ariseproduct
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It may display as 14GB (If it boots) but it is not a good idea. The reason being that RAM sticks are selected to be shipped together purposfully as they are tested beforehand, so even buying RAM which is the exact same but not as a package (2x4GB, 4x2GB etc.) May have adverse effects and not work aswell as it would if the sticks were selected to work together; as they are when sold by the manufacturer.
Shaun o
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As long as the four sticks of memory match in respects to the speed they run at, the latency timings, and the stated voltage needed to run them then your system should run the four sticks of memory fine to give you a total amount of memory of 14GB.
Arise.
If you have a memory module that is rated at a slower clock speed, or has slightly higher memory latency timings.
Make sure it is placed in the first Dimm memory slot of the motherboard.
Then it will force the other memory sticks to run at the lower speed setting or clock frequency of the lower speed memory module.
As the board always takes the first memory modules settings in most cases for speed latency timings, and voltage settings and apply s them to the rest of the memory in the three other Dimm slots of the motherboard ok.
Arise.
If you have a memory module that is rated at a slower clock speed, or has slightly higher memory latency timings.
Make sure it is placed in the first Dimm memory slot of the motherboard.
Then it will force the other memory sticks to run at the lower speed setting or clock frequency of the lower speed memory module.
As the board always takes the first memory modules settings in most cases for speed latency timings, and voltage settings and apply s them to the rest of the memory in the three other Dimm slots of the motherboard ok.
Tradesman1
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What mobo? If they all play nice and run together they will go to the mobos default. From there you can set manually to the best they can all run together. From Cpu would install with 4-4-4-2, which give you 12 GB running in dual channel and the odd 2GB off one of the 4GB sticks will be in single channel mode if a relatively new mobo (say the last 5-6 years
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