Since my Corsair dual channel 8 gig decided to die, thus the crashes, I had to buy another 8 gig dual channel. While I used to love Corsair, their RMA process takes way too long, so I ended up buying Gskill during the cyber Monday sale. I still plan on RMA'ing the old dual channel 8 gig Corsair very soon, but it will take 2-3 weeks to get them and by tomorrow I will have the Gskill RAM. What should I do with the replacement RAM that I receive? They are both the same timings and speed, 12800 @ 9-9-9-24, should/can I place two different RAM brands? So it would be 1 and 3 as one brand, and 2 and 4 slots as another? While I know it's possible from working in a IT salvage yard, I don't really know if doing this would hurt from a performance POV.
Any thoughts?
Since my Corsair dual channel 8 gig decided to die, thus the crashes, I had to buy another 8 gig dual channel. While I used to love Corsair, their RMA process takes way too long, so I ended up buying Gskill during the cyber Monday sale. I still plan on RMA'ing the old dual channel 8 gig Corsair very soon, but it will take 2-3 weeks to get them and by tomorrow I will have the Gskill RAM. What should I do with the replacement RAM that I receive? They are both the same timings and speed, 12800 @ 9-9-9-24, should/can I place two different RAM brands? So it would be 1 and 3 as one brand, and 2 and 4 slots as another? While I know it's possible from working in a IT salvage yard, I don't really know if doing this would hurt from a performance POV.
Any thoughts?
You should be able to put both of them in. My old computer actually has some Crucial and Samsung RAM together, Crucial being the one that I bought.
You should be able to put both of them in. My old computer actually has some Crucial and Samsung RAM together, Crucial being the one that I bought.
I'm no expert but, just in case nothing more insightful comes along, this is what I've been told:
It should work, but RAM can sometimes be picky for reasons hard to fathom and choose to be uncooperative. Allegedly there are even cases of RAM sticks (or DIMMs, if I'm using that correctly) sold in pairs that end up RMA'd because, despite being individually functional, somehow won't work in tandem.
So they should work together fine, but there's a small chance they just won't. When I asked why that was, I got a wishy-washy answers along the lines of "computers, man."
I'm no expert but, just in case nothing more insightful comes along, this is what I've been told:
It should work, but RAM can sometimes be picky for reasons hard to fathom and choose to be uncooperative. Allegedly there are even cases of RAM sticks (or DIMMs, if I'm using that correctly) sold in pairs that end up RMA'd because, despite being individually functional, somehow won't work in tandem.
So they should work together fine, but there's a small chance they just won't. When I asked why that was, I got a wishy-washy answers along the lines of "computers, man."