change from Kingston Hyperx blu to Hyperx fury?

[morrisW]

Hi, i know nothing about computers,
and i just want to know if i could replace the ram of my computer from 8GB of RAM Kingston Hyperx Blu1.5v KHX 1600C 10D3B1/8G to a Kingston Hyperx Fury 8GB or to 16GB 2x8GB of Hyperx fury?
basicaly my question is if my computer supports Hyperx blu can it support Hyperx fury

 

[VincentP]

We need more information.
What is your CPU model and the model of the new RAM?

 

[morrisW]

CPU is intel core i5-4430 3.00GHz
the RAM i want to use is Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB DDR3-1866 CL10 (HX318C10FB/8)
or Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB HX316C10FWK2/16

 

[VincentP]

Either one of these sets should work at DDR3-1600 speed.
With the DDR3-1866 set, you should be able to get them working at DDR3-1866 speed with an XMP profile or some tuning in the BIOS.
Saying that, I would rather have 16 GB of RAM than 8 GB of RAM running at a slightly higher speed.

 

[morrisW]

thanks for answering, and adding 2GB or 4GB of Kingston Hyperx blu DDR3-1600 to the 8GB of Hyperx blu DDR3-1600 is possible or recomended?

 

[VincentP]

thanks for answering, and adding 2GB or 4GB of Kingston Hyperx blu DDR3-1600 to the 8GB of Hyperx blu DDR3-1600 is possible or recomended?

Mixing RAM kits can be hit and miss. If the specifications are similar it should work, but no guarantees.
Plus any odd number of dimms means you are not taking full advantage of the dual memory controllers.
Just installing a 2 x 8GB kit is the best option.

 

[Tradesman1]

Either one of these sets should work at DDR3-1600 speed.
With the DDR3-1866 set, you should be able to get them working at DDR3-1866 speed with an XMP profile or some tuning in the BIOS.
Saying that, I would rather have 16 GB of RAM than 8 GB of RAM running at a slightly higher speed.

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Chances are the 1866 will run fine when initially installed if you set the DRAM settings to auto before removing the old. Simply install and they should set up to 1866. If they don't will need manual setup, the Fury line of DRAM doesn't use XMP it runs under PnP and has no XMP profile.

 

[Tradesman1]

thanks for answering, and adding 2GB or 4GB of Kingston Hyperx blu DDR3-1600 to the 8GB of Hyperx blu DDR3-1600 is possible or recomended?

Mixing RAM kits can be hit and miss. If the specifications are similar it should work, but no guarantees.
Plus any odd number of dimms means you are not taking full advantage of the dual memory controllers.
Just installing a 2 x 8GB kit is the best option.

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Give it a try since you have it, mixing and sets of DRAM is a crapshoot, and many more have had problems mixing standard XMP based DRAM with PnP based sticks...As far as an odd number of sticks that's not a problem if the will play - the DRAM will run in Flex mode i.e. if you have 2x8GB and a 4GB then the 2x8GB go in slots 1-3 the 4 GB in slot 2 and you effectively have 16GB in dual channel mode and the odd 4 simply runs in single channel mode. Flex has been around for years