Different ram speed match??

[yokeaizen]

Hi guys 
I have an doubt pls clear it 

I have a 2800Mhz g.skill  8Gbx2 ram on my board none RGB so if I buy an 3200 MHz RGB kit Ram are they work together??

[Tan3l6]

They will work at 2800Mhz

[Quickstrike]

3 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

They will work at 2800Mhz

Or give you BSOD

There is more than speed to account for.
I strongly suggest you don't mix two different RAM of a system unless the have identical CAS latency and speed.

 

Flip those older module on the used market to finance some additional sticks.

[spartaman64]

if they are the same company/model of ram its generally ok. i have a crucial ballistix sport 3000mhz and a crucial ballistix sport 3200mhz and i actually manage to get both of them to run at 3200mhz. but ofc i got lucky and theres a good chance in your case they might all just run at 2800mhz

[yokeaizen]

I have no idea about it that’s why I’m looking for an answer I will check. Into this before I buy them 

[Tan3l6]

9 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

Or give you BSOD

There is more than speed to account for.
I strongly suggest you don't mix two different RAM of a system unless the have identical CAS latency and speed.

 

Flip those older module on the used market to finance some additional sticks.

I have been building my own PC and mixing RAMs since 2001 ... never seen a BSOD because ram kits incompatibility. Honestly.

[Quickstrike]

Just now, Tan3l6 said:

I have been building and mixing RAMs since 2001 ... never seen a BSOD because ram kits incompatibility. Honestly.

I have... in 2001 Battlefield Vietnam didn't like it and the slower module crashed my rig.

It was under early windows XP. 

[Windows7ge]

You can usually get all of the RAM to run at the slower RAMs speed. If you're lucky you could overclock the slower RAM to match the faster RAM but that comes with challenges of its own. It's generally easier to clock the faster RAM down to match the slower RAM then tighten the RAM timing appropriately to get everything you can out of the mixed pair.

 

But in short, yes you can mix them. It may not work first try out of the box though and D.O.C.P./X.M.P. might cause instability.

[porina]

There are reasons for instability that are somewhat separate from speeds/timings. Loading up the effective total rank per channel tends to reduce the speed it will support. I don't mix kits if I can help it, but on the occasions I do, I haven't experienced any problems. On the flip side, I have many times encountered kits and mobos that just wont play well together. Either are fine when in other systems. Some combos just don't work.