Can this single stick be combined with two 4gb sticks on same motherboard w/out affecting performance? accidentally purchased 2x4gb but want this too
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We have 2-4gig & 1-8gig (all corsair blue) running in a server with an Asus mb. Most newer mbs support mixed memory fine. Some perform a little better with memory in pairs, so just in case, I would check the mb docs & put the 4g pair in the lower slots. Another suggestion is to run benchmark or Windows experience with only the 4g pair, then only the 8g.
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Yes it would affect performance, it is best to put 2 of the same type at the same time in. Like running your 2x4gb or 2x8gb.Also if you are not running a 64bit system it would be useless to do it
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Yes you can. Just put the 8 gig chip in slot 1 and 4 gig in 2 and 3. For a total of 16 gig
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Not entirely sure. I think the motherboards use dual channel technology for their RAMS, so having 3 RAM sticks and with different memory capacity wouldn't do any good. At the least, there would be wasted memory. As far as I know, it is NOT recommended to combine RAMS sticks which are different in memory and/or voltage. I would try selling your 4gb RAM sticks and getting 2 new 8g.
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It should be fine, even if you mix and match ram from different vendors it will work fine if the settings are all the same.
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Long story short: you shouldn't, I highly recommend to use 4X4GB for this motherboard, this ram memories aren't for the specs it have.
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This is a pack of two 4gb sticks of ram. (remember it is best with performance in mind to get paired sticks for desired results)
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You can get two 4 GB sticks of memory instead. Here is the Amazon link. Good luck. Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9)Willis (Bill) Van Gorder
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From what is says in the manual it should be able to use 16, but it would need to be 8 gb on each stick because it only has the normal 2 ram slots
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Yes ma'am according to Asus site you can use this ram 2 GB Up to 16 GB Dual Channel, DDR3 at 1333MHz 4 x DIMM. So I made the jump from 4 gb of ram to 16. Some may say it is over kill but I have no bottleneck in the memory flow.
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yes, your Motherboard has 4 slots and can take 16 gigs, more then that and the forums differ in there success rate of getting 32 gigs to work
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Corsair vengeance ddr3 .i got 32 gig(4x8) and it works great! Had no issues with my board.looks like got lucky from previous comments
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I think the easy answer is no I don't think you will have problems. but it's a little complex sometimes. You should check the memory compatibility for your motherboard. Also if you have 3 or 4 memory slots using 1 8gb stick with 2 4gb stick will half the speed of your memory I think because it runs at double speed when in pairs. If you do two 8gb sticks everything will be fine but if you use 2 8gb sticks and the 2 4gb sticks you might actually hit the memory cap for your motherboard which is 16gb in some cases. Sorry for long answer hope it helped some.
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It will work fine in a dual channel motherboard as long as you have another memory stick, as each stick operates on a seperate channel.
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Yes. Any PC2-6400 / DDR2-800 200-pin SO DIMM SDRAM will work up to 2x2Gb for 4Gb total.
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Yes, it should be fine with an 8GB stick and a 4GB stick. Though you'd get slightly more performance out of 2 x 8GB sticks.
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Check the specifications for your PC - especially the capacity of RAM for that specific motherboard. I suspect it will be 4GB max, much faster than what you have now. If there are four bays, you can try and add the two stick and see what the motherboard will accept at boot-up. Before ordering, be sure your memory sticks match.
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I am using two eight gig sticks, but I do know that it is indeed compatible with eight gig sticks as well. It's a great motherboard, by the way. Couldn't be happier.
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If memory serves me, no pun intended. If you have four slots they all have to be the same speed otherwise it will perform at the lowest speed, I have put 3 GB in 3 slots and 256mb in the fourth and had no issue. You will also want to see the maximum gigs your motherboard will support, if your motherboard only supports 4 gigs and not 8 gigs then adding it to what you already have would be pointless.
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According to the manual, it looks like you can, as long as you pair the memory modules correctly(new ones together, old ones together), but I am not sure how that will affect performance. For an extra $40 I bought the extra 1 GB so they are all the same. I would refer to your manual for more information.