Little question about RAM?

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Hey awesome squad here :) Hope you have a great day, Gotta little issue here.

I have a Gigabyte H97 Gaming 3 and an Intel Core i7 4790 processor.

I have two ram sticks running in dual channel mode (In the same colour slots). Both of them are same Kingston HyperX 4GB ddr3 1600 Mhz ram. They are different clours as I bought them separately (Black and Red). But their model numbers shown through CPUID is the very same. But I run them without XMP. So I guess it's 1333 Mhz now? Does it run at 1333Mhz now?

And I have a another Kingston 2GB ddr3 1333 MHz memory lying around. I am not sure about the model. But I can check and update this thread if it's really compulsory.

So here's my question, I have 2 ram sticks (HyperXs) running in one DIMM channel (same colour slots). And there are two slots left in the motherboard.

Would it cause any issues If I add the 2GB one to the motherboard? And would the entire system memory (10GB) run at same speed (1333Mhz) without adjusting anything in the BIOS?

Thank you very much for any help. Have a pleasant day :)
 
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Motherboard manual details all the ways to do it. But in short - with power switch on PSU set to off, remove motherboard battery for a minute, and then put it back. That forces motherboard on next start to do full hardware check.

AGiLE KiTTY

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Hi so I checked adding RAM. Here's what happened. It didn't matter what slot I added them to, Any two of them work together. When I add the third, Computer keeps re starting without sending anything to monitor. Could you help me here?
 

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Actually... when I had my old computer with the mobo Intel DH55HC, I used to run the hyperx red and 2gb stick on that mobo running into absolutely 0 issues. So one hyperx + 2gb stick works and shows 6GB (5.xx usable) in the system properties.

I didn't reset CMOS, never done it. Is there any specific way I should do it?
 


Motherboard manual details all the ways to do it. But in short - with power switch on PSU set to off, remove motherboard battery for a minute, and then put it back. That forces motherboard on next start to do full hardware check.
 
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Sure I'll update what happens.