Need some advice

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Ok so it's about 4-5 months after I built my new work and gaming machine, but when I first built it the only thing I held back at was the RAM. I got just 8GB, sure it held up but now I'm noticing that it's holding back the rest of the PC back and a lot. Now cause I'm tight with money (I have some other investments to make) and I'd like to deal with the lack of RAM a bit sooner I was thinking (here's the question) should I and more importantly would it be "bad" if I put a 4GB stick along with the 8GB stick I have? It would be the same, this one is a Hyper X Fury 2133mhz 8GB Black stick, the one I'd put is exactly the same 2133mhz Fury black just it would be 4GB instead of 8GB. The 8GB stick costs twice as much as the 4GB (wow amazing that double the memory cost double)  and I don't feel like giving the money for 8GB with all the other things I'm investing my money in. 

 

I know that in general it shouldn't be a problem, I also read that it can do dual channel if the voltage and frequency are the same (ok the frequency would be the same at 2133mhz, but how much chance that another Hyper X Fury stick would have a different voltage?) so I'd like to hear opinions and advice on this. 

 

 

TL;DR: Pairing the same RAM but one stick is 8GB other is 4GB, good or bad? 

[Guest]

8+4 will work, no reason not to. @wrathoftheturkey

[TheKDub]

4 minutes ago, -X- said:

I also read that it can do dual channel if the voltage and frequency are the same (ok the frequency would be the same at 2133mhz, but how much chance that another Hyper X Fury stick would have a different voltage?) so I'd like to hear opinions and advice on this. 

 

 

TL;DR: Pairing the same RAM but one stick is 8GB other is 4GB, good or bad? 

 

I'm fairly sure that the capacity needs to be the same for dual channel to work.

 

It'll work either way, the only question is if it'd end up being single or dual channel.

[Mr.Meerkat]

24 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

I'm fairly sure that the capacity needs to be the same for dual channel to work.

 

It'll work either way, the only question is if it'd end up being single or dual channel.

It will end up as single channel...not like it makes that much of a difference in terms of performance...but yeah, it works so...why not eh?  

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4 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Absolutely. I was actually going to do the same, 1x8 and 1x4, but ended up keeping another set. I'm currently running 2x8 and 2x4, and my PC is completely fine. It'll work.

Did you run them in dual channel? Or now in quad channel? Cause I've also been thinking that sometime if I want to further add more RAM would it be a bad idea to do so but if you're running 2x8 + 2x4 then it's awesome I might end up doing that later on.