[SOLVED] DDR3 4GB and 8GB together?

[Titanion]

So I just got 2 sticks of ram in the mail from eBay. I ordered a pair 4GB Ballistic Sport 1600, but instead of getting 2 x 4 GB, I got one 4GB and one 8GB.

They both seem to work.

I already had two of them, so now I have three 4s and one 8..

What should I do? Can I run 3 sticks of 4GB and one 8GB together? What is my best combination?

GA-Z77X-UD3H
I5-3570K

Gaming computer for my daughter.

 

[Hellfire13]

Well just the quad channel part but I took it like everything else don't really matter as the results are the same.

Absolutely.

 

[Zerk2012]

Absolutely.

As long as all the memory works together is all that counts, no blue screens then everything is OK from their. Some people get to stressed over really nothing

I guess you could make a point from just running benchmarks but in RL performance who cares and you might not get the results you expect from the benchmarks.

 

[Hellfire13]

As long as all the memory works together is all that counts, no blue screens then everything is OK from their.

I guess you could make a point from just running benchmarks but RL performance who cares.

The addition of the 12gb will help the cause rather than limit performance as i was trying to say. Yes dual channel is more optimum and all that, but on such an old platform the delta will be pretty negligible even if measured accurately and definitely not noticeable in anyway.

 

[Zerk2012]

The addition of the 12gb will help the cause rather than limit performance as i was trying to say. Yes dual channel is more optimum and all that, but on such an old platform the delta will be pretty negligible even if measured accurately and definitely not noticeable in anyway.

Not even sure if just 2 sticks work better from the video the 4 sticks on the dual channel board beat 2 sticks most of the time. That was with AMD that is more memory speed dependent than Intel.