Goodday dear community,
I have this problem:
I bought a rig built by a guy 1 year ago. It has an Asrock z77 extreme6 mobo and 12 gb of corsair RAM (8+4) on single channels. Now it's time for upgrades and I wanted to add some memory to reach about 20-24 gb.
I wanted to simply add memory of the same type so that I could take advantage of dual channels.
My problem is that when I looked into my pc specs, I found out that my memory sticks are "lonely specimens" that were originally part of two kits (a 2x4 and a 2x8 kit). Now to find the right soul mates for my lonely sticks is surely a tough task (since everyone of course only sell the whole kit. Btw I live in italy were it's not too easy to bump into good deals regarding pc components).
For reference, my sticks are:
Half of this kit: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance-8gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz8gx3m2a1600c8 )
And half of this one: CML16GX3M2A1600C10 ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance-low-profile-16gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cml16gx3m2a1600c10 )
Since I can't find other unpaired memories like mine (and likely cannot sell mine at good price either), would you consider advisable pairing them in dual channel with these two?
CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9B ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance-16gb-single-module-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz4gx3m1a1600c9 )
CML8GX3M1A1600C10 ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeancer-low-profile-8gb-ddr3-memory-kit-cml8gx3m1a1600c10 )
The specs for the 8gb sticks appear to be exactly the same, but for the 4 gb sticks they have slightly different tested latency. However I'm no expert in pairing memories and I don't know if plain looking at the specs is enough to be safe.
If you think that I'd better not to pair them this way, now that you know of my situation: what would you advice to solve my issue in the most cost-effective way?
Thank you all for the support
I have this problem:
I bought a rig built by a guy 1 year ago. It has an Asrock z77 extreme6 mobo and 12 gb of corsair RAM (8+4) on single channels. Now it's time for upgrades and I wanted to add some memory to reach about 20-24 gb.
I wanted to simply add memory of the same type so that I could take advantage of dual channels.
My problem is that when I looked into my pc specs, I found out that my memory sticks are "lonely specimens" that were originally part of two kits (a 2x4 and a 2x8 kit). Now to find the right soul mates for my lonely sticks is surely a tough task (since everyone of course only sell the whole kit. Btw I live in italy were it's not too easy to bump into good deals regarding pc components).
For reference, my sticks are:
Half of this kit: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance-8gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz8gx3m2a1600c8 )
And half of this one: CML16GX3M2A1600C10 ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance-low-profile-16gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cml16gx3m2a1600c10 )
Since I can't find other unpaired memories like mine (and likely cannot sell mine at good price either), would you consider advisable pairing them in dual channel with these two?
CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9B ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeance-16gb-single-module-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz4gx3m1a1600c9 )
CML8GX3M1A1600C10 ( http://www.corsair.com/en/vengeancer-low-profile-8gb-ddr3-memory-kit-cml8gx3m1a1600c10 )
The specs for the 8gb sticks appear to be exactly the same, but for the 4 gb sticks they have slightly different tested latency. However I'm no expert in pairing memories and I don't know if plain looking at the specs is enough to be safe.
If you think that I'd better not to pair them this way, now that you know of my situation: what would you advice to solve my issue in the most cost-effective way?
Thank you all for the support