Question I have a 4 port motherboard does it need to match exactly

[Voidmaster01]

i have two sticks of ram already installed onto my PC that I currently use, and have some ram sticks from an older computer would it be fine to add my old ones together with my new ones?

 

[DSzymborski]

i have two sticks of ram already installed onto my PC that I currently use, and have some ram sticks from an older computer would it be fine to add my old ones together with my new ones?

It might work, it might not. Only sticks sold together in a kit are guaranteed to work together, but they sticks do work together quite often. Just be prepared for it not to work.

 

[SkyNetRising]

i have two sticks of ram already installed onto my PC that I currently use, and have some ram sticks from an older computer would it be fine to add my old ones together with my new ones?

Are they of same type?
For example you can not mix different types - ( DDR3 with DDR4 or DDR4 with DDR5 ).

Even if they are of same type,
mixing different ram kits together can lead into ram compatibility issues.

 

[Voidmaster01]

Are they of same type?
For example you can not mix different types - ( DDR3 with DDR4 or DDR4 with DDR5 ).

Even if they are of same type,
mixing different ram kits together can lead into ram compatibility issues.

I am unsure if they are of the same type as I haven't been able to find it using my computer, though I cannot currently open either PC due to needing to get the storage off of one, but I believe they are all either DDR3 or DDR4 most likely the latter

 

[SkyNetRising]

I am unsure if they are of the same type as I haven't been able to find it using my computer

Use CPU-Z (spd section) to identify ram modules.
Show screenshots.
(upload to imgur.com adn post link)

 

[Voidmaster01]

Use CPU-Z (spd section) to identify ram modules.
Show screenshots.
(upload to imgur.com adn post link)

https://imgur.com/a/9NRtvuQ

View: https://imgur.com/a/9NRtvuQ

I cannot currently get the ones from my other PC as the graphics card is not working but I will be taking thatone apart soon enough

I also have my specs of a single ram stick and motherboard in this "post"

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are those screenshots from old or new pc?
What are specs of the other pc?

 

[Voidmaster01]

Are those screenshots from old or new pc?
What are specs of the other pc?

these are screenshots from my current PC, my old PC is not showing on any screen from any port so I cannot get any from it

 

[SkyNetRising]

May be you can take a photo of motherboard?
There should be model name written on it.

 

[Voidmaster01]

May be you can take a photo of motherboard?
There should be model name written on it.

I opened up the pannel of my older PC and found out that whatever stick that's in there wouldn't be compatible with any modern PC, sorry for the inconvinence

 

[SkyNetRising]

So DDR3. Right?

 

[Voidmaster01]

So DDR3. Right?

that is correct, though I'm unsure if it was even in there due to the fact that it was either missing a RAM or its GPU