MSI Z170-A Pro - RAM Question

[Nitrobit45]

What‘s up community,

recently I‘ve been planning to upgrade my current system, CPU and RAM.

This is the setup right now:

Mainboard: see title
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k @ 4x4,6 GHz (OC)
CPU-Fan: Alpenföhn Matterhorn White Edition
GPU: iChill GeForce GTX 1070, 8 GB
RAM: 2x4 GB HyperX Fury DDR4 2400

So... my CPU cooler is so big that it only allows 2-3 (need to check) RAM sticks at the same time. For my purposes, I need 20 GB+ RAM.

If it is exactly the same model (same latencies) , just another memory size, would it be possible to mix 1x4 GB with 1x16 GB without any issues?

Edit: links to the RAM modules

Current: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-HyperX-FURY-schwarz-DDR4-2400-DIMM-CL15-Dual-Kit_1010620.html

Addition: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/16GB-HyperX-FURY-schwarz-DDR4-2400-DIMM-CL15-Single_1034545.html

I really don‘t want to buy another Mainboard, since the RAM prices are pretty high right now and the CPU is going to be the i7 7700k.


Thanks for reading through this and I hope you can answer my question

Nitrobit

 

[krzyimprt]

What‘s up community,

recently I‘ve been planning to upgrade my current system, CPU and RAM.

This is the setup right now:

Mainboard: see title
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k @ 4x4,6 GHz (OC)
CPU-Fan: Alpenföhn Matterhorn White Edition
GPU: iChill GeForce GTX 1070, 8 GB
RAM: 2x4 GB HyperX Fury DDR4 2400

So... my CPU cooler is so big that it only allows 2-3 (need to check) RAM sticks at the same time. For my purposes, I need 20 GB+ RAM.

If it is exactly the same model (same latencies) , just another memory size, would it be possible to mix 1x4 GB with 1x16 GB without any issues?

Edit: links to the RAM modules

Current: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-HyperX-FURY-schwarz-DDR4-2400-DIMM-CL15-Dual-Kit_1010620.html

Addition: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/16GB-HyperX-FURY-schwarz-DDR4-2400-DIMM-CL15-Single_1034545.html

I really don‘t want to buy another Mainboard, since the RAM prices are pretty high right now and the CPU is going to be the i7 7700k.


Thanks for reading through this and I hope you can answer my question

Nitrobit

Just buy 2x16GB if you really need that much ram. Your current RAM is in the correct slows for duel channel right?

 

[Nitrobit45]

Thanks for your suggestion. Sadly, I don‘t have a high enough budget to buy 32 GB instead of 16 GB...

So do I have a chance to hit 24 GB by mixing 2x4 and 1x16 GB?

 

[krzyimprt]

Thanks for your suggestion. Sadly, I don‘t have a high enough budget to buy 32 GB instead of 16 GB...

So do I have a chance to hit 24 GB by mixing 2x4 and 1x16 GB?

Mixing ram like that is just weird and not advised. Usually you want to put the same size module in each slot. As for 32GB no surprise, RAM prices are through the roof, back in 2016 I could of got 32GB for $120.

 

[jr9]

If you cannot afford to go 2x16GB and you also have RAM slots blocked you could add a 16GB DIMM. They are both 5 5 5 29 and both have the same frequency so they should work if you are forced to mix and match. The only bad thing is that your RAM would be running in single channel mode instead of dual channel and may have some performance loss.