Adata and Kingston hyper x fury combined in one system?

[brendan Miron]

As above those are the vendors for the ram, I am planning on buying the HyperX in a 16gb set of 2x 8gb while I have 2 adata 2x 4gb sticks will these combine in a amd fx 8320 cpu, ga-970a-d3p motherboard combo, both ram sets would run at 1866mhz, will it work?

 

[kanewolf]

Maybe. Are the timings the same at 1866? Are they the same voltage? The best you can do is try it and abuse it with MEMTEST for a day. If you don't get any errors then you got lucky.

Mixing memory is an inexact science at best.

 

[Rynhe]

usually is better to have the same size of ram memory, but these should work anyway... seen computers with sticks of 4 gb combined with some of 2... working without problem just make sure they have the same frequency

 

[brendan Miron]

Yep same frequency

 

[eatmypie]

You have a 50-50 chance of it working even if the timing and everything else is identical. There are always chances for memory not to want to work correctly with each other even with same models if they are bought at different times and different kits. I would say 30-50% chance of unmatched kits working properly, and 70-90% chance of a kit from same vendor and model working together that haven't been tested in shop to work with the other modules. Like when I bought my 64gig kit it was crazy expensive but I wanted to make sure that I got a kit that has been proven to work together.

 

[Tradesman1]

You have a 50-50 chance of it working even if the timing and everything else is identical. There are always chances for memory not to want to work correctly with each other even with same models if they are bought at different times and different kits. I would say 30-50% chance of unmatched kits working properly, and 70-90% chance of a kit from same vendor and model working together that haven't been tested in shop to work with the other modules. Like when I bought my 64gig kit it was crazy expensive but I wanted to make sure that I got a kit that has been proven to work together.

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+1 Recently did some testing and had two manufacturers send two identical sets of 2 sticks each - right out of the packages in each case the 2 sets didn't play, took some adjustments. Have seen numerous instances of two identical matching packages of DRAM that simply WON'T play. So mixing any sets of from different packages is a crapshoot