RAM, which way round?

[Delta5ff]

I have an old store bought PC that I want to sell. I took everything out of it for cleaning, but the RAM comes as a 4gb and 8gb stick and I don't know which way around I should put them back in or if it even matters.

[79wjd]

It doesn't matter. 

[ThomasPham]

There is only one way that they should fit in,  you can actually see that there are more pints on one side than the other.  Just match the lesser pin side with the correct slot and you should be good.  If it snaps in,  you did it correctly!

[mariushm]

It won't matter. 

 

As for physical insertion, you can only insert them one way, you have that cut (the key) which blocks you from inserting it the wrong way.

 

[Delta5ff]

I know how to physically insert them but I wasn't sure if it mattered which one went in which slot. I currently have the 8gb on in the green slot and the 4gb in the blue slot. I just want to make sure that whoever gets it gets its full performance and is not hampered because I put the sticks in the wrong slots.

[knightslugger]

5 minutes ago, Delta5ff said:

I wasn't sure if it mattered which one went in which slot.

if all slots are to be filled, it generally will not matter. It's more important to know if one slot allows larger DIMMs than the other so that you're not shooting yourself in the foot. Of course, the simple solution to that is to just rearrange them if that's the case. you could benchmark them in both configs to see if there really is any difference.

[Guest]

It really doesnt matter what RAM slots you put it in.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

25 minutes ago, mariushm said:

It won't matter. 

 

As for physical insertion, you can only insert them one way, you have that cut (the key) which blocks you from inserting it the wrong way.

 

 

26 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

It doesn't matter. 

no u can actually force it in the wrong way so it clips and if ud turn on ur mobo it would shortcircuit and the mobo would die :v ( takes quite abit of pressure tho but some ppl manage to do it )

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

 

no u can actually force it in the wrong way so it clips and if ud turn on ur mobo it would shortcircuit and the mobo would die :v ( takes quite abit of pressure tho but some ppl manage to do it )

He's asking if it matters which slot each stick goes in. 

[heimdali]

I´d refer to the documentation of the board.

 

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

5 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

He's asking if it matters which slot each stick goes in. 

about that those are 2 different ram sticks and i checked them up, their latencies are different and probably wouldntevenbe stable

[RAM555789]

The RAM is the same, and theres only two RAM slots. You would only need to worry about placement if you had 4 RAM slots and two sticks of RAM.

[79wjd]

17 minutes ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

about that those are 2 different ram sticks and i checked them up, their latencies are different and probably wouldntevenbe stable

RAM isn't really all that finicky. I've ran plenty of mismatched configs over the years without any issues. Of course there's always a chance of instability when you're using sticks that weren't tested and validated together, but that chance is absurdly small. 

6 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

The RAM is the same, and theres only two RAM slots. You would only need to worry about placement if you had 4 RAM slots and two sticks of RAM.

The reason you need to worry about two sticks in four slots is so that the two sticks run in dual channel (if they're the same capacity). These sticks, however, aren't the same capacity, so even if the board had 4 slots it still wouldn't matter. 

[Delta5ff]

12 minutes ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

about that those are 2 different ram sticks and i checked them up, their latencies are different and probably wouldntevenbe stable

I was running with those sticks of ram for over a year before I upgraded to my custom build with no problems.

 

I was a good little system but no it just sits in the corner collecting dust.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

14 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

RAM isn't really all that finicky. I've ran plenty of mismatched configs over the years without any issues. Of course there's always a chance of instability when you're using sticks that weren't tested and validated together, but that chance is absurdly small.

i guess u dont know how secondary timings and tetriary timings corrupt stuff

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

i guess u dont know how secondary timings and tetriary timings corrupt stuff

I guess you don't know about the millions of systems that run just fine with mismatched memory. 

[RAM555789]

Just noticed one stick was 4gb and one stick was 8gb lol

[Delta5ff]

6 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

Just noticed one stick was 4gb and one stick was 8gb lol

that's why I was asking if it mattered which went in which slot. I wasn't sure if one would be considered the primary slot and should have the 8gb stick in it.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

39 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

I guess you don't know about the millions of systems that run just fine with mismatched memory. 

i know exactly of silent unstability in ram , systems can seem stable but silently corrupt on secondary/tetriary timings,   program is not responding is probably quite known to u x)