I recently did my first build, and I am curious about mixing up the RAM a bit. I was buying and building amidst my divorce and the one thing I forgot to buy was RAM.
A buddy gave me 2 sticks of DDR4 4GB 2400 mhz to get things up and running.
So my setup was
Ryzen 7 CPU
EVGA 1060 GPU
MSI X350 Turbo Motherboard
8GB DDR4 RAM
1TB HD
1200 Watt Power Supply
It functioned - but was like running a 2008 laptop, nowhere near what it should be. Minimum boot time was averaging 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It would hang and freeze. Games as simple as Minecraft would throw back a memory failure error half the time.
So I shelved it for nearly a year and a half now, when I bought 16GB DDR4 3000 mhz the other day on a whim at best Buy.
Runs pretty well now, but idk what to do with these leftover 4GB sticks. Am I able to stick them in the other channels and bump up to 24 GB Ram? Would they all run at 2400 mhz or can I overclock them to run at 2800?
Some sites I've read say absolutely never mix RAM and others say it'll be a breeze and work fine.
Any help would be appreciated!!!
A buddy gave me 2 sticks of DDR4 4GB 2400 mhz to get things up and running.
So my setup was
Ryzen 7 CPU
EVGA 1060 GPU
MSI X350 Turbo Motherboard
8GB DDR4 RAM
1TB HD
1200 Watt Power Supply
It functioned - but was like running a 2008 laptop, nowhere near what it should be. Minimum boot time was averaging 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It would hang and freeze. Games as simple as Minecraft would throw back a memory failure error half the time.
So I shelved it for nearly a year and a half now, when I bought 16GB DDR4 3000 mhz the other day on a whim at best Buy.
Runs pretty well now, but idk what to do with these leftover 4GB sticks. Am I able to stick them in the other channels and bump up to 24 GB Ram? Would they all run at 2400 mhz or can I overclock them to run at 2800?
Some sites I've read say absolutely never mix RAM and others say it'll be a breeze and work fine.
Any help would be appreciated!!!
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