Two kinds of Mem sticks

DavidLevy

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I'm buying a Asus A8N Deluxe SLI, with 2X512 Kingston C3 400mhz sticks.
I might want, soon, to get 2X512 Corsair PC3200XLPT C2 (2-2-2-5)..

1) Will they work together OK?
2) Will i be able to OC the latter mem pair?
3) Can i tell the mobo to use out the corsair ram first, before using the Kingston sticks?
4) Or will i have to throw the first pair out if i want to insent better mem?

Thanks...
 

jammydodger

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1) Yes, but they will work with the timmings of the kingston RAM.

2)When you overclock memory you cannot overclock certain modules, you have to overclock all of them.

3)Possibly but putting the Cosair in slots 1 and 3, but there will be no performance improvement because the RAM will be running at the same speed as the kingston RAM.

4)Basically if you want to have the advantage of Low latency you will have to get rid of the kingston. RAM timmings and speeds have to be the same for all modules. Dont expect performance gains over 10% from using low latency modules.