Question Two different brands of RAM are installed, is this all running fine ?

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I had 32GB ram on this particular computer. DDR4 3200, link, https://www.newegg.com/corsair-32gb-ddr4-3200/p/N82E16820236541

I added another set of RAM I purchased some 2 years ago (one of it was RMA'd and got a replacement from the company) https://www.newegg.com/silicon-power-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820301435

I wanted to know if these two RAM sets and running well on this computer with 4 slots. Should I keep it this way or just run 32GB of Corsair RAM I initially had on this system. Is CAS latency 16 on these and are these all running at 3200 max speed?

Specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5700x, ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac AM4

I am attaching five screenshots below.





 
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I would stick to one ram kit instead of mixing and matching. If it works for you, then hooray but if you start getting instability/BSoD's, then you should look to the ram.

I wanted to know if these two RAM sets and running well on this computer with 4 slots. Should I keep it this way or just run 32GB of Corsair RAM I initially had on this system. Is CAS latency 16 on these and are these all running at 3200 max speed?
If you look across the forums here, you'll see that mixing and matching rams is pretty much a no-no. best settle with a ram kit with identical sticks of ram. Sourcing another kit of Corsair ram would be a bad idea since they are the only ones out there who source IC's from multiple vendors, hence they have PCB revision numbers on their kits.
 
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I wanted to know if these two RAM sets and running well on this computer with 4 slots.
Should I keep it this way or just run 32GB of Corsair RAM I initially had on this system.
Is CAS latency 16 on these and are these all running at 3200 max speed?
Looks fine. You should set command rate to 2T though, to improve stability. (1T is for 2 module configuration).
And test ram with memtest86.

What motherboard are you using BTW?
 
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The key thing with ram is you never really know until you test it. You either run extensive tests yourself or you buy kits of memory from some QVL list where someone else has tested the memory you want on your motherboard. This still is not 100% certain because the actual chips can vary between boards and even within the memory chips on one memory stick.

In the end you boot something like memtest64+ and let it run over night. You can then adjust the settings to increase or decrease the performance numbers until you get something stable.

All this means in that particular case for your particular memory and motherboard it will work at certain settings.

The general recommendation is to not mix and match memory. You have limited number of sticks where a factory has massive numbers that they can pick from to get sets that closely match each others performance.

Since you already payed for them it is purely a matter of messing with it until you get settings with as high performance as you can that is stable.
 
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I had 32GB ram on this particular computer. DDR4 3200, link, https://www.newegg.com/corsair-32gb-ddr4-3200/p/N82E16820236541

I added another set of RAM I purchased some 2 years ago (one of it was RMA'd and got a replacement from the company) https://www.newegg.com/silicon-power-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820301435

I wanted to know if these two RAM sets and running well on this computer with 4 slots. Should I keep it this way or just run 32GB of Corsair RAM I initially had on this system. Is CAS latency 16 on these and are these all running at 3200 max speed?

I am attaching five screenshots below.





Looks fine....run your stuff if no problems show leave it alone.
 
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Looks fine. You should set command rate to 2T though, to improve stability. (1T is for 2 module configuration).
And test ram with memtest86.

What motherboard are you using BTW?
Ok, will try this 2T setting and see what it does and report back. I also updated my post with my computer specs. Thanks.
Specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5700x, ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac AM4