Mixing RAM

[Kitsune4]

Hello!

 

I have in my possession, 2 4gb Sticks of Corsair Vengeance RAM, and I recently scavenged my old PC and found 2 4gb sticks of Patriot RAM, although, I'm not sure of the specifics so I have attached a picture_{(I am also pathetically hopeless and don't know how to make it smaller; sorry lol)}. 

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I was wondering if it was okay to mix the two on my ASUS Z97-A motherboard?

I am aware that they both need a voltage of 1.5V and both are CL9 _{(whatever that means lol)} so theoretically it would be okay to use them both right?

Of course, I have a total of 4 RAM slots on my motherboard so that isn't an issue, but I am also aware that the Patriot is clocked at 1333MHz whereas the Corsair is clocked at 1600Mhz so the corsair would be downclocked to 1333MHz.

Assuming that they work together, does the reduction in frequency matter that much? I've heard that RAM Capacity is much more important than RAM frequency.

 

Thanks!

[Aleksi134]

I have mixed ram before though it wasnt by different companies. Both were kingston. Ram frequency doesnt affect performance hugely.

[Ya_Mi]

U will know the result after u tried because of different manufacturing process and timings there's a chance it wont work and ur computer wont boot at all.

But if it does u can change the timings and yes the corsair will be downclocked to 1333mhz and it wont affect much unless u do some special apps that require a fast memory.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just don't run them in dual channel and you'll be fine. Run a memory test so you know if it's fully stable.

[Mr.Meerkat]

It should work. You may as well try as you already own both sets  

[Kitsune4]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Just don't run them in dual channel and you'll be fine. Run a memory test so you know if it's fully stable.

Do you mean that I shouldn't put the 2 corsair sticks in the matching colour RAM slots and the 2 Patriot in the other 2 matching slots? If so why is that?

[Kitsune4]

13 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

It should work. You may as well try as you already own both sets  

Haha, it does work. So far anyway, boots to Windows at least. Haven't really had a chance to do a stability test.

The patriot RAM is detected as "undefined 4gb 1333MHz" lol

 

I just needed to disable the XMP profile on the Corsair RAM