Can you put a 4gb and a 8gb together and will it work...?

[DutchPrime]

I am upgrading my current pc(Inspiron 660) :



Stock case
CPU: i3 2120 @3.30GHz (Stock)
RAM: 4.00GB (Stock)
GPU: MSI GTX 750 Ti 2GB (Upgraded myself)
PSU: 300W (Stock)
HDD: 500GB Seagate Barracuda
And a dvd drive i dont know the name of (Stock)

And i want to buy:

Case: Sharkoon VS3-S red
RAM : GeIL 8 GB DDR3-1333
SSD: Sandisk SDSSDP-128G-G25, 128 GB
PSU: Sharkoon WPM600 Bronze, 600 Watt

My question is: Can i just add my 8gb ram and will it work?
If i need to do some setting changes for that, can u explain that or leave a link?

 

[Darksiden78]

Yes you can mix sizes of ram such as 4GB with an 8GB stick to make it a total of 12GB of ram in your PC. But I recommend not mixing speeds without a newer motherboard as it usually never ends well in my experience. Got bluescreens commonly and memory errors. I would also recommend you upgrade your Power supply as you stated it was stock, and most Stock PSUs never truly put out the amount of electricity as they label it should.

 

[DutchPrime]

Yes you can mix sizes of ram such as 4GB with an 8GB stick to make it a total of 12GB of ram in your PC. But I recommend not mixing speeds without a newer motherboard as it usually never ends well in my experience. Got bluescreens commonly and memory errors. I would also recommend you upgrade your Power supply as you stated it was stock, and most Stock PSUs never truly put out the amount of electricity as they label it should.

I am going to buy a new power supply... So you are saying i might get crashes with my stock motherboard? Due to mixing speeds?

 

[Darksiden78]

On older motherboards is usually happens, Provide me the model and manufacturer of your motherboard and I'll check it for you. If it's an older mobo it most likely will not like it when you start mixing speed. I also recommend to not use a single stick of a different speed when doing this as I got more crashes this way on older motherboards.