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Ok... the it's not as automatic as I thought. If I had a 3600 mHz stick in the first slot the motherboard would have selected those parameter for the xmp and it would have never worked. And I'm sorry if I keep insisting on this... but so far I haven't had an answer to my original question. If I...

First of all, I'm no expert in this... but sounds like a similar problem I had when upgrading the ram on my laptop. Same as you, I had 8 GB and bought another and when I installed it, it didn't seem to work. Tried to change it to see if the slot on the notebook was busted, didn't work either...

Thanks for the suggestion! I did run memtest86 and fortunately everything was ok. However, my question remains... let's say that my pc didn't pass the test, or that I kept having stability issues trying to enable xmp, would it have helped if I had put the two sticks of each kit in the same...

Crucial vengance lpx, both of them. EDIT: here's some more information. Both are 3200 MHz, the firt kit's timings are 16-20-20-38, second kit 16-18-18-36. As I said, xmp defaulted to the second's kit timing and the system wasn't stable. But with the first kit's timings it's working fine.

This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find a straight answer. I've added more ram to my pc. It originaly had 16 GB (8x2) of ddr4 3200 MHz, and I got another two sticks of the same brand, but the chips must have been slightly different because the timings weren't exactly the same...

Thanks for all the answers. Yes, I'm well aware that my pc is more than enough for what I can do right now. I was asking because I might be coming into some money and I thought that I could use to upgrade something. As I said, I didn't built it initially with that kind of work in mind. I'll...

Hi. I'm trying to learn how to develop apps (not really intrested in game development just yet) and I was wondering if I could/should upgrade my pc. I've just started learning, but my goal is to be able to contribute on any open source proyects. I've built it myself two years ago and I mostly...

Hello. I'm restoring an old pc and I haven't quite settled on how much ram to buy. The cpu is an amd fx 6100 and the gpu is a radeon R7 360. It's not going to be my main pc, I'm going to use it to try different linux distros, and hopefully do some gaming . I'm leaning towards buying 8GB of ram...

Hello, this may be an easy question, but I wanted to be sure. I'm going to change my r7 360 for a r7 370, assuming I have installed the first card ok and I have the latest driver, am I going to run into any trouble with the driver after changing the card? Thanks

Thanks!! That was really helpful! One last question, is that SATA port completely lost or it may be recovered with something like a BIOS update?

Hello, I've encountered a problem while working on a PC and I think I solved it. However, I've just started working on PC's as a hobby and I don't understand what was the problem nor how it was fixed by what I did. I know that this might not be a regular post because the problem was solved, but...