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Cpu: Intel I7 8700

Motherboard: asus z370 pro

Memory: 2x4gb ddr4 3000 mhz

 

Wish I could put my old 2x8gb 2400mhz in the other dual memory slot on the motherboard. Can I?

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Yes you can. The RAM will just run at the lowest timings of all the sticks. 

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Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

Yes you can. The RAM will just run at the lowest timings of all the sticks. 

Well, is it better to stick at 2x4gb 3000mhz or 2x4gb + 2x8gb 2400mhz

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1 minute ago, Chalo2531 said:

Well, is it better to stick at 2x4gb 3000mhz or 2x4gb + 2x8gb 2400mhz

Depends, are you only gaming? If only gaming, the 2x4 3000mhz is the better, but you do lots of multi tasking and have multiple browser tabs open, then you probably would want to just go with the 2x8 kit. 

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Slap em together and runn them on the lower speed 

should work. But do some testing before doing anything critical!

In one pc I also have 2x2GB@1866 +2x4GB@1600 DDR3 

running fine at 1600 

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