ram upgrade, which slot should i place ram in?

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i have a pc using 4 sticks of 2gb ddr3 ram, so 8gb total, my motherboard is able to support up to 32gb, and i have access to an 8gb ddr3 ram stick and would like to use it for my pc, how should i go about doing this? can i simply take out any stick and replace it with the 8gb to give me a total of 14gb or do i have to re arrange the sticks in a certain configuration?
 
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Just take any stick out and replace it with the 8GB stick.

Fair warning though - there is a chance your computer might not boot with a different stick in there.
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why wouldnt it boot? must the ram be in a certain configuration, im not really, the best when it comes to pc's do i have to do something in the bios maybe to make it work? also, would placing that ram destroy any components or the ram itself?
 
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Some motherboards don't like it when the RAM isn't of the exact same specs in each pf the slots, but then again some motherboards are OK with it. It's a crapshoot, basically.

There's nothing you can really do in the BIOS to resolve it IF it doesn't work.

And if it's incompatible it won't destroy anything, so let's not go there.
 
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i have a hp 8200 sff motherboard, would the motherboard accept the ram? btw they all run at the same speed of 1333mhz
 
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