Remedial question about RAM and DIMMs

[benjysch]

Sorry about the idiocy here, but I must have missed something over the years. I have an asus mobo, with 4 paired RAM slots. I have 2 x 4G making a total of 8G. If I put two more 4G strips in the other slots, will I have a total of 16G? Likewise, if I put in 2 x 8G, would I have 24G? Embarassingly yours...

 

[kanewolf]

Maybe. You have to look at the specs of your motherboard and determine what the maximum supported RAM is. Might be 16GB might be 32GB. If it is 32GB then putting 8GB DIMMs in two slots would give you 24GB if the four DIMMs play nicely together. They might not play nicely and you might end up taking the smaller ones out and dropping back to 16GB.

 

[gskill support]

Yes, but you will need to try and see if they can work together. In some cases, they may not run at full speed, or they may not work well together at all, so it depends on the RAM.

 

[Tradesman1]

Yep it's a crapshoot to try and mix DRAM, might look at Item 2 in my article :

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ddr-dram-myths,4155.html