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geofelt
Adding a second 8gb stick is not 100% guaranteed to work.
Consider what your plan B is if that turns out to be the case.

Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
A motherboard must manage all the ram using the same specs of voltage, cas and speed.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards can be very sensitive to this.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.
It is safer to get what you need in one kit.

My suggestion is to buy a complete 16gb kit of 2 x 8gb that is compatible with your motherboard.
Ram vendors have apps to do such a compatibility check.
With two sticks, you will be running in dual channel mode.

Keep the old...
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Devistator16

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8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
This says single channel but the mother board says dual channel does that matter? Also would it be better to just buy two matching with lower timing? Will my motherboard handle lower timing or does that matter?
 
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kaptainkuftic

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RAM works best when you have matching pairs. Always try to use RAM meant to go together. If you can't get RAM that came from the same package, try to find an equal stick to one that you already have. No guarantees, but it should work. Finally, unmatched RAM. Probably won't work on defaults unless the timings and speeds are the same by default. May not work even if you tweak everything to be the same.

Personally, I would just get 2 new sticks of ddr3, it's pretty cheap now that ddr4 is out, but your Speccy says single channel because your RAM is currently in single channel mode
 
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Adding a second 8gb stick is not 100% guaranteed to work.
Consider what your plan B is if that turns out to be the case.

Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
A motherboard must manage all the ram using the same specs of voltage, cas and speed.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards can be very sensitive to this.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.
It is safer to get what you need in one kit.

My suggestion is to buy a complete 16gb kit of 2 x 8gb that is compatible with your motherboard.
Ram vendors have apps to do such a compatibility check.
With two sticks, you will be running in dual channel mode.

Keep the old stick as a spare or sell it.


 
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kaptainkuftic

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You would have to look up the motherboard https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130722

In specifications, it'll tell you max memory allowed, in this case, you were right at 16GB
 
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kaptainkuftic

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Timings probably don't have to be the same, at least I don't think that's stipulated by your motherboard. They only need to be the same if you are adding 8GB to your existing 8GB, but again it's easier and safer to just by a 16GB kit.

Just don't both buying ram faster than 1600 unless you want to go through and manually set speeds and timings for not that big of a performance boost.
 
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