8+4= 12gb ram?

[cuff78]

I want to get more ram and was wondering if I just got a 8gb stick and one of my current 4gb and make it 12gb because my board only has two slots on it. 

[ARikozuM]

Yes, you can. 

[flibberdipper]

Some boards throw a shitfit when you mix RAM capacity (my board would cause massive RAM leaks when I had an 8GB stick paired up with a set of 2GB sticks), so honestly all I can say is give it a shot and if it doesn't work well just try to get another 8GB stick.

[cuff78]

4 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Yes, you can. 

Sounds good, thank you

[doomsriker]

Completely depends on the system. some boards only support 4gb per slot. same goes for some cpus. Knowing your system specs would help us answer the question.

[cuff78]

3 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

Completely depends on the system. some boards only support 4gb per slot. same goes for some cpus. Knowing your system specs would help us answer the question.

I have a i5-4590, 2x4 Crucial Ballistix Sport, GTX 1060 3gb, Gigabyte h81m-ds2v

[rye10516]

I have 4 ram slots. they're currently 4+4+4+0

 

 

no issues. asrock z97 extreme4

[doomsriker]

1 minute ago, cuff78 said:

I have a i5-4590, 2x4 Crucial Ballistix Sport, GTX 1060 3gb, Gigabyte h81m-ds2v

That sounds like a setup that should work fine with 4+8 gb of ram. I would go ahead and try it. Just keep in mid that your ram speed will automatically be dumbed down to the lowest speed stick in the system. So if the 4gb stick is 1333 mhz than buying a fancy stick of 2400mhz ram is pointless.

[cuff78]

Just now, doomsriker said:

That sounds like a setup that should work fine with 4+8 gb of ram. I would go ahead and try it. Just keep in mid that your ram speed will automatically be dumbed down to the lowest speed stick in the system. So if the 4gb stick is 1333 mhz than buying a fancy stick of 2400mhz ram is pointless.

Getting the same speed as my 4gb, 1600mhz 

[kirashi]

37 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Some boards throw a shitfit when you mix RAM capacity (my board would cause massive RAM leaks when I had an 8GB stick paired up with a set of 2GB sticks), so honestly all I can say is give it a shot and if it doesn't work well just try to get another 8GB stick.

This must be pretty common, as my motherboard seems to do the same with my 2x 8GB and 2x 2GB DDR3 memory modules when I leave the computer on for just a few days. RAM usage sits around 6-10GB upon startup as I have too many Chrome Tabs running in both my Chrome based web browsers, among many other programs I leave running in the background. After just a few days, RAM usage creeps up to 16GB usage. (It's currently at 17.9GB / 20GB used despite not having opened or closed anything other than Steam and Battle.net and a few games.) I should take out the 2x 2GB sticks and see if I see the same results though.

[flibberdipper]

28 minutes ago, kirashi said:

This must be pretty common, as my motherboard seems to do the same with my 2x 8GB and 2x 2GB DDR3 memory modules when I leave the computer on for just a few days. RAM usage sits around 6-10GB upon startup as I have too many Chrome Tabs running in both my Chrome based web browsers, among many other programs I leave running in the background. After just a few days, RAM usage creeps up to 16GB usage. (It's currently at 17.9GB / 20GB used despite not having opened or closed anything other than Steam and Battle.net and a few games.) I should take out the 2x 2GB sticks and see if I see the same results though.

For me it'd just progress from idling around 2GB flat to filling up all of it within a few hours.