Yea I was afraid of that. I now have two choices: buy another same RAM or sell the one I have and buy a kit. Anyways, thanks!It is not 100% guaranteed that it will work.
They sell kits for a purpose, they test these kits together and see if they will work or not.
You might be lucky enough for those two different rams to be working together but most of the times it wont work.
Sell what you have and buy a kit of 2x8GB and check your motherboard manual for the supporting ram kits.
Hmm aight. Thanks for the input sir!Will it work? You won't know unless you try.
Will it have stability problems later on and cause BSODs and other issues? You'll never know unless you try and if it works you keep and use it for a while.
Sell what you have and a get a kit which is guaranteed by the manufacturer that would work in the form it's sold. Heck, sometimes (rarely) even those don't play nicely with the system let alone different RAM.
Interesting. But I think I'm already contented with 2666mhz for now, since I don't use the iGPU of the Ryzen...Honestly, with a Ryzen, I'd go the sell route and get a kit of faster RAM.
No these kits are just a way to do business. Intel says that you can mix RAM of same speed and capacity and it will work just fine.It is not 100% guaranteed that it will work.
They sell kits for a purpose, they test these kits together and see if they will work or not.
You might be lucky enough for those two different rams to be working together but most of the times it wont work.
Sell what you have and buy a kit of 2x8GB and check your motherboard manual for the supporting ram kits.
No these kits are just a way to do business. Intel says that you can mix RAM of same speed and capacity and it will work just fine.
Comparing apples to oranges doesn't work. Intel may say a lot of things that have absolutely no bearing on an AMD installation. Please don't encourage others to waste their money on mere opinion.No these kits are just a way to do business. Intel says that you can mix RAM of same speed and capacity and it will work just fine.
Comparing apples to oranges doesn't work. Intel may say a lot of things that have absolutely no bearing on an AMD installation. Please don't encourage others to waste their money on mere opinion.
There are hosts of actual tests that validate the practice of installing memory in test-matched pairs or quads, and the only responsible recommendation is to sell the old and buy a matched pair.
I never said that the OP should buy the RAM straightforward. Yes that is a safer side to buy kits. And if you know of any such case of not working RAM please tell otherwise you can't say I am wrong. I forgot to mention timings too must be same. I have purchased RAMs this way and they are working fine. Has anyone verified this thing?That is what i hate, when someone comes with no knowledge about a certain thing and start spreading words of his own to let people waste money.
Has anyone verified this thing?
Okay then I apologize for what I said. I saw other people saying on internet that there RAM did not work.Memory is guaranteed in the form sold. Other combinations have no guarantee to work together.
You are free to do your own compatibility testing without any guarantees.
Is this related to motherboard BIOS? I think it is.Well if i didnt already test 5 or 6 different rams together i wouldn't say that buying a kit matters instead of single mixed rams.
I already tested more than 4 on my own rig and the two that came in the kit worked just fine else it kept giving me boot loop and it didnt work.
Is this related to motherboard BIOS? I think it is.
You got it wrong. What I mean to to say is BIOS compatibility matters. In fact it all comes down to what kind of motherboard you have and how its BIOS support mixed memory.Nope it is not, when i used the mismatched ram sticks it started giving me a loop restart until i removed one of the rams and then it worked just fine.
Feel free to present evidence to unequivocally prove this "fact".In fact it all comes down to what kind of motherboard you have and how its BIOS support mixed memory.
I just said what I read from Intel's site. So what if I clarified my doubts that way?And it is now you who has no idea of forum rules.Just leave it @AllanGH the guy has no idea what he is talking about.