RAM's brands, MHz and DDRs

Dreadful

Hi.

Just a quick question - does it matter if ram sticks are different brands and maybe different MHz? Would I still benefit from them?

I bought new rig and I have 4g DDR3, but I was thinking either getting my old ram, which is also DDR3 but different brand, or getting my roommates ram stick.

If i install my old ram I will have 8g DDR3. If I go with my roommates ram stick, which is 4g (1x stick), plus my new 4g (2x stick) I will also have one more slot for my old ram, so I can have 10g ram. Overkill?

My system

Mother - Asus P8Z68-v
GFX - GTX560 Ti 1g GDDR5
PSU - 600 w OCZ

unnameduser

Brands usually mix fine.

The most important thing to remember is that the RAM will run at the clock speed of the slowest stick.

You can do a search to see what is the max amount of ram per slot and in total.

10GB is total overkilll for most people. Good luck.

Dreadful

does clock speed affect performance much when i have 8g ddr3?

Overheal

Dreadful wrote: »

does clock speed affect performance much when i have 8g ddr3?

That and CAS Latency timings.

Oh you're going to have so much fun

You might what to check your motherboard's manufacturer website for the list of supported memory types - speeds, timings etc. that are known good configurations.

Dreadful

Alright, will do. Thank you very much guys

Khannie

Personally I'd rather have 4G in a dual channel config than 10 not. I very rarely reach the point that I would benefit from having more than 4G, but I'm always using the benefit of dual channel config (which is worth like ~5% iirc).