Yeah it might be an odd title but I’m serious 
I’m currently using ballistic sport ddr3 1600mhz ram (2x4)
And I want to get 16 gb of ram and i was told that buying the same ram and just adding it on won’t work well or won’t work at all.
I thought this was very strange as I’ve never heard anything like this ever. The complete statement goes:
Ram is punched out of a sheet of silicon like a cookie cutter, each sheet not being pure 100% silicon it does have some impurities in it. If you look at the 2x4 kit you bought, the serial numbers should be consecutive or very close to it.
That says that they were cut from the same sheet, so are as perfect a match as possible. The factory then tests the pair to guarantee they are compatible. Even if you buy exactly the same ram, same speed, vendor, model, color, everything, the serial numbers will be quite different.
The ram pairs being cut from different sheets. Different sheets means different levels or even types of impurities. Now when you initially look at ram, you'll see the primary timings, like 9-9-9-24 etc. Unless you go onto bios, what you won't see is the @12 secondary timings and @28 tertiary timings.
It's in the secondary and tertiary timings where you'll find 95% of all incompatibility, basically the 1st pair of ram has high copper and the second pair of ram has high nickel impurities which changes the 2nd/3rd timings and the ram doesn't play well together. This is the sole reason why 4x ram sticks in a single kit cost more than 2x pairs sold separately, it's harder to get 4 sticks that play nice.
So is there any merit to this? Like I did I’ve never heard of this ever and I’ve always lived under that impression that adding more ram was fine. As I can’t really afford to buy a completely new set of 2x8 ram sticks I was just gonna but another 2x4 set to add on.
Let me know if this is just bollocks or if it’s actually merit to it
I’m currently using ballistic sport ddr3 1600mhz ram (2x4)
And I want to get 16 gb of ram and i was told that buying the same ram and just adding it on won’t work well or won’t work at all.
I thought this was very strange as I’ve never heard anything like this ever. The complete statement goes:
Ram is punched out of a sheet of silicon like a cookie cutter, each sheet not being pure 100% silicon it does have some impurities in it. If you look at the 2x4 kit you bought, the serial numbers should be consecutive or very close to it.
That says that they were cut from the same sheet, so are as perfect a match as possible. The factory then tests the pair to guarantee they are compatible. Even if you buy exactly the same ram, same speed, vendor, model, color, everything, the serial numbers will be quite different.
The ram pairs being cut from different sheets. Different sheets means different levels or even types of impurities. Now when you initially look at ram, you'll see the primary timings, like 9-9-9-24 etc. Unless you go onto bios, what you won't see is the @12 secondary timings and @28 tertiary timings.
It's in the secondary and tertiary timings where you'll find 95% of all incompatibility, basically the 1st pair of ram has high copper and the second pair of ram has high nickel impurities which changes the 2nd/3rd timings and the ram doesn't play well together. This is the sole reason why 4x ram sticks in a single kit cost more than 2x pairs sold separately, it's harder to get 4 sticks that play nice.
So is there any merit to this? Like I did I’ve never heard of this ever and I’ve always lived under that impression that adding more ram was fine. As I can’t really afford to buy a completely new set of 2x8 ram sticks I was just gonna but another 2x4 set to add on.
Let me know if this is just bollocks or if it’s actually merit to it
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