Mismatched Ram Timings

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Hello,
I have an older system I'm trying to get everything I can out of. My system was 4gb ram but my friend gave me another 4gb. Basically I'm curious how I would best go about getting the best performance I can out of these. Thank you in advance.

2x2gb Corsair Dominator CMD4GX2M2A1066C 5.0-5-5-18-23 @ 400 MHz
2x2gb G.Skill F2-6400CL5-2GBPQ 5.0-5-5-15-24 @ 400 MHz

965 Black Edition @ 3.8ghz
MSI 790XT-G45
8gb DDR2
MSI R9 290x Lightning 4gb
 
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The system will down-clock the faster RAM to the same settings as the slower RAM so the best you can do is see what settings you can get out of the slower RAM. But which set of RAM is the slower is a question, the timings are almost the same, it will come down to which brand overclocks better. To determine which you would have to install one set of RAM at a time and see what settings could be achieved. But truthfully you could just install both sets of RAM and let the system choose the settings, the performance hit will likely not be great.
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The system will down-clock the faster RAM to the same settings as the slower RAM so the best you can do is see what settings you can get out of the slower RAM. But which set of RAM is the slower is a question, the timings are almost the same, it will come down to which brand overclocks better. To determine which you would have to install one set of RAM at a time and see what settings could be achieved. But truthfully you could just install both sets of RAM and let the system choose the settings, the performance hit will likely not be great.
 
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They have not, what I posted above for ram timings is pasted from CPU-Z .txt report. unless CPU-Z is wrong.
 
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Right on, Thanks for the assist!
 
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