mixing ram brands?

[efan]

I just bought a new pc and it only came with 8gb of ram. I found the brand of ram that's already in the system, but it seems like it only comes in 2x8GB packs. Is it okay to get 2 different brands of ram, so long as the speed is the same?

 

For instance, the stick that's currently in my PC is XPG DDR4 3000mhz and I found a stick of Corsair vengeance 3000mhz for around $50. 

[Middcore]

It's fine.

 

All RAM is actually made by only like 3 actual manufacturers (Samsung, Micron, SK-Hynix, there may be one I'm forgetting) and then a shit-ton of other companies just rebrand it. 

[THE_GUY.]

Don't worry about it, even if you have different brands, the chipsets are still made by the same manufacturers (most of the cases) and or, you should look for the specs of the RAM sticks you want to match, and even so, if they have different clock speeds, the ones with a higher clock will have no problems adjusting to the lower frequency ones and in most cases you will be benefited by having more ram in your system, and performance will increase, maybe not speedwise if you have lower clock RAM working with your higher clock ones, but at least you'd have more space where the games/software will take process in. 

[Quackers101]

Both same brand and speed would not mean that it would work.

If it's the same TYPE then its likely going to work unless it's damaged from before.

They should be the same GB and SPEED to have the most success if you are planning on mixing them.

 

Else you could gain more experience by testing it out, as it has a chance to work too.

Like said above, some of the chips will be the same and some might just work perfectly.

Other times you might have to change the settings to make it work.

 

Different thread on it.

 

[efan]

2 minutes ago, Quackers101 said:

Both same brand and speed would not mean that it would work.

If it's the same TYPE then its likely going to work unless it's damaged from before.

They should be the same GB and SPEED to have the most success if you are planning on mixing them.

 

Else you could gain more experience by testing it out, as it has a chance to work too.

Like said above, some of the chips will be the same and some might just work perfectly.

Other times you might have to change the settings to make it work.

 

Different thread on it.

 

is there anything in the title of the product that i should look out for that’d tell me the chip manufacturer? 

[Quackers101]

10 minutes ago, efan said:

is there anything in the title of the product that i should look out for that’d tell me the chip manufacturer? 

can't do that, you can check (although not sure were it's specified).

But that doesn't matter, you have to test it in person to know. Which is why it's not recommended fully for beginners to mix it, you can try ofc, if you have found something that closely matches with what I said about MHz and GB size.