Three sticks of RAM?

hughtrimble

hughtrimble

hughtrimble

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Afternoon all,

The IT department where I work has just installed two more sticks of 2GB ram into my PC, whilst leaving in the single stick of 4GB in the mobo (it's a Dell Optiplex 9010).

The system is registering the now correct 8GB (plus change).

I thought you had to either have two or four sticks of Ram?
I also thought all RAM had to match for make, model and number of GBs etc.?

Were my preconceptions entirely incorrect?

Hugh
 
hughtrimble said:
Afternoon all,

The IT department where I work has just installed two more sticks of 2GB ram into my PC, whilst leaving in the single stick of 4GB in the mobo (it's a Dell Optiplex 9010).

The system is registering the now correct 8GB (plus change).

I thought you had to either have two or four sticks of Ram?
I also thought all RAM had to match for make, model and number of GBs etc.?

Were my preconceptions entirely incorrect?

Hugh
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From what I know if you have 3 sticks in a dual channel setup it will work fine just not quite as fast as if there were 2 or 4 but there should be no issues.
As for makes and such its better to get them all the same so that the timings match and speeds match but really it shouldn't matter in a office environment as they will just all run at the slowest sticks speed.
They would have probably been better money and performance wise to just add 1 stick of 4gb but hey.
 
meandu229 said:
From what I know if you have 3 sticks in a dual channel setup it will work fine just not quite as fast as if there were 2 or 4 but there should be no issues.
As for makes and such its better to get them all the same so that the timings match and speeds match but really it shouldn't matter in a office environment as they will just all run at the slowest sticks speed.
They would have probably been better money and performance wise to just add 1 stick of 4gb but hey.
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I tried the cost and efficiency line, but they insisted on 2x 2GB sticks in addition to the 4GB.

I've just tried to run some diagnostic software to see the exact make/model/speed of the RAM sticks, but of course, I need the admin password.

Time to open it up and see!

Thank you for your response Meandu
 
I tried the cost and efficiency line, but they insisted on 2x 2GB sticks in addition to the 4GB.

thats 'cos they were leftovers after the mangers upgrade
as its a std office pc they'll be using bog std 1600 with std timings
 
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