24 GB CL11 or 16 GB CL10

[DragonClaw]

Halo!

My desktop is installed with 8GB CL11 RAM in form of two 4GB Corsair Value Select sticks.
As an upgrade I got two 8GB CL10 Corsair Vengeance sticks.

All the four sticks are clocked at 1600 MHz. In my understanding, these RAMs may work together to 24GB of effective memory, but only at a latency of 11 (if I pair them in the correct slots).
I could also get rid of the CL11 sticks and do with 16GB CL10 (two 8GB sticks) RAM on my PC.

Which of these two scenarios should play better for me? I use my PC for 3D modelling and renders and it needs to run softwares like Revit and Photoshop, apart from running moderate games.

Rest of my specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA UD3 rev3.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 960
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Thanks a lot!

 

[clarkjd]

Halo!

My desktop is installed with 8GB CL11 RAM in form of two 4GB Corsair Value Select sticks.
As an upgrade I got two 8GB CL10 Corsair Vengeance sticks.

All the four sticks are clocked at 1600 MHz. In my understanding, these RAMs may work together to 24GB of effective memory, but only at a latency of 11 (if I pair them in the correct slots).
I could also get rid of the CL11 sticks and do with 16GB CL10 (two 8GB sticks) RAM on my PC.

Which of these two scenarios should play better for me? I use my PC for 3D modelling and renders and it needs to run softwares like Revit and Photoshop, apart from running moderate games.

Rest of my specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA UD3 rev3.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 960
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB

Thanks a lot!

If you can get all 24GB to work, then that is the way to go. I don't think you would notice(except in benchmarks) ANY difference between CL10 and CL11.
That being said, Getting 4 sticks of unmatched ram to work is problematical at best and impossible at worst, even if they are the same brand, model, speed, and timings. Especially if they were purchased at different times.
YMMV

They sell ram in matched sets for a reason.

 

[DragonClaw]

Thanks for the quick reply.
When I built my PC I was told I could easily add RAM to upgrade memory. I even managed to "add" RAMs on my old Pentium machine years back. But now I know that's not the case always.
Anyways, I will try to get 24GB out of the four sticks, if not 16GB is an upgrade good enough.