Is this fine? (ram)

[aren332]

I recently ordered an Asus Z97-C motherboard. I have 2 sticks of kingston ddr3 1600mhz ram (8gb) and 2 sticks of sk-hynix ddr3 1600mhz ram (8gb). Will it be fine to run the 2 kingston sticks in one dual channel and the other 2 sticks in the second dual channel on the motherboard? This has worked perfectly fine on my dell optiplex 9020 motherboard. My cpu is an i7 4790k

[Bismut]

Dual channel is just how how many "data tubes" the RAM can get fed data through, from what I understand. You should be just fine, everything will run in dual channel and you will have the full capacity, you are just not taking advantage of the theoretical bandwith that would be available if your platform was able to adress it (which would not make a huge difference, I think - unlike single channel, that would wreck your performance).

Just make sure to look at the RAM mode afterwards using CPU-Z or so.

[RONOTHAN##]

12 minutes ago, aren332 said:

Will it be fine to run the 2 kingston sticks in one dual channel and the other 2 sticks in the second dual channel on the motherboard?

Only one way to find out. 

 

Mixing memory is always a crapshoot, and there really isn't a way to find out until you try it.