Can i combine?

[fiftyyy]

Hey people

One quick question regarding ram memory.

Currently im running

Phenom II b60 @ 3.30Ghz
Asrock 970 extreme3
galaxy gtx 560
2 x 2 gb kingston 1600 hyper x

i want to buy addition 4 gb of kingston 1600 hyper x memory

Is it going to run ok if i combine 2x2 gb + 1x 4gb memory on my system?

Regards

 

[sosofm]

Buy 2 x 2GB to run in dual channel mode.

 

[fiftyyy]

that makes 4 x 2gb the price is a bit higher like 4-5$ but thats not a problem

btw 4 memory how much power wil consume?

 

[sosofm]

What power supply , do you have ? Here an article about RAM power consumption. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/ddr3_13.html#sect0

 

[mildsend]

not too much only cost you more than 30 watts..

but i think it is better to if you buy 2 x 4GB on your system and sell
your old memory..

because your computer only support dual channel not quad channel memory..

 

[sosofm]

If he have allready 2 x2GB RAM that allready run in dual channel mode and if put another 2 x 2Gb RAM they also will run in dual channel mode ( if im not wrong wil work in dual channel slots 1-3 and 2-4 ). His mobo doesn't know quad channel.

 

[clarkjd]

Actually, a quad channel kit would stand a better chance of stability than 2 dual channel kits, as all 4 modules would be matched.

with 2 dual channel kits, you usually have to do some tweaking in BIOS to get them to run stably.

 

[sosofm]

If you buy the same memory you will not have any problem.