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Mix of ram on H97M-E

Ionah
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Hey there! I want to know if I can mix 1 stick of Kingston 8GB 1600mhz with 1 stick of HyperX Fury 8GB 1600mhz. I know that mixing from different manufacturers can be risky but I found them cheap so maybe will be worth. I visited asus site for QVL ram but got me confused so maybe you can help me. Thanks!

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15 hours ago, Ionah said:

Hey there! I want to know if I can mix 1 stick of Kingston 8GB 1600mhz with 1 stick of HyperX Fury 8GB 1600mhz. I know that mixing from different manufacturers can be risky but I found them cheap so maybe will be worth. I visited asus site for QVL ram but got me confused so maybe you can help me. Thanks!

its fine. but the system will time both on the slowest ram

 

example

 

ram 1 - 1600 mhz

ram 2 - 1800 mhz.

 

the system will follow the 1600mhz

 

example 2

 

ram 1 -1600 cl 12

ram 2 -1600 cl 10

 

the system will follow the ram with 1600 cl 12.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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Try. if it boots it works i guess.
But it should definitely not do any damage if it fits like its supposed to.
And like @amdorintel and @Martin2132 said, it will work at the slowest module speed.

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

Not willing to capitulate to the ignorance of the masses!

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It could very well work fine at 1600Mhz, but likely if the CAS latency is different,..between sticks,.. it'll use 1333Mhz or keep 1600Mhz but use the slowest timing stick and use those values globally across the remaining faster sticks)

Maximums - Asus Z97-K /w i5 4690 Bclk @106.9Mhz * x39 = 4.17Ghz, 8GB of 2600Mhz DDR3,.. Gigabyte GTX970 G1-Gaming @ 1550Mhz

 

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You can even use different size stick btw. My other PC has 10GB ram hehehe 1x8GB and 1x2GB works like a charm, and no it only became faster but then W10 does need/want a nice amount of RAM.

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

Not willing to capitulate to the ignorance of the masses!

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though, you might want to take advantage of dual or triple channel depending if the cPU and motherboard supports it.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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