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anshuman_2

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Hey guyz, i am planning to buy this ram stick-Gskillz ripjaws V 8gb ddr4 2400mhz....can i run it in dual channel if i purchase 2 of them separately (not in a kit)..
 
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Likely you can, but there's a reason dual memory (or quad) kits exist: they've been tested at the factory to work together with no errors. Like CPUs, memory from one day to another in fabrication (silicon specifically) can have microscopic variations that may or may not cause one module to play nice with the other.

So essentially when you buy memory individually and not in a kit, you are rolling the dice. I've noticed this decreased tolerance level of using non-kit memory modules over my 20 years of PC building. For example, I recently upgraded an old Core 2 Duo laptop with a different second 4GB DDR2 memory module to pair with the 2GB that it came with for 6GB. I tried upgrading my Sandy Bridge HP Pavilion laptop with a simple second...
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thx1138v2

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Maybe. It might run dual channel and it might not. That's the benefit of buying a kit. They're guaranteed to work together.

If you need the RAM it will still help your performance but not as much as going from single to dual channel.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/memory-upgrade/
 
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Likely you can, but there's a reason dual memory (or quad) kits exist: they've been tested at the factory to work together with no errors. Like CPUs, memory from one day to another in fabrication (silicon specifically) can have microscopic variations that may or may not cause one module to play nice with the other.

So essentially when you buy memory individually and not in a kit, you are rolling the dice. I've noticed this decreased tolerance level of using non-kit memory modules over my 20 years of PC building. For example, I recently upgraded an old Core 2 Duo laptop with a different second 4GB DDR2 memory module to pair with the 2GB that it came with for 6GB. I tried upgrading my Sandy Bridge HP Pavilion laptop with a simple second 4GB memory module for 8GB and it did not work. I had to buy an 8GB kit of 2x4GB.
 
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anshuman_2

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Thank you soo much y'all..... Doesn't matter what question this noob throws at you.... You guyz answer everyone one of them with perfection.... Glad this site existed :)
 
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