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I found a great deal on Facebook for a guy selling ram. I currently have 6 1gb sticks in my pc because it needs triple channel. I want to know if it would be a bad idea to spend $30 to get 3 2gb sticks and put them with the 1gb sticks to get 9gb of RAM. Anyone have advice for me?

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So you have 6 ram slots? I would just get the 3 2gb sticks and then buy another 3gb one, instead of having a 3x1gb + 3x2gb configuration...

 

But seriously, what platform, what motherboard, and what RAM generation do you have? I've never heard of triple channel ram.

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If you have triple channel, you probably have an x58 System. 2 GB DIMMs are cheap; 6 2GB DIMMs shouldn‘t cost significantly more than 30$, just search on ebay for „DDR3 6x2gb“. Mixing 1 and 2 GB modules is no issue, but it doesn‘t really make sense nowadays. 

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19 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

So you have 6 ram slots? I would just get the 3 2gb sticks and then buy another 3gb one, instead of having a 3x1gb + 3x2gb configuration...

 

But seriously, what platform, what motherboard, and what RAM generation do you have? I've never heard of triple channel ram.

I have an i7 920 on a TBGM01 motherboard. I got the system prebuilt a long time ago so that's why I don't know too much about the mobo. The board has six RAM slots, currently fully populated with 1GB DDR3 DIMMs. 

 

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