Buying two separate kits of memory that bad?

Semiskimmed · 21 Feb 2018 at 12:19

A couple of weeks ago I bought a 2x 4GB kit of ddr4 to go with a ryzen CPU.

I'm now considering buying another kit so I can run 16GB total. I'll get the same kit as before but do realise it may be slightly different.

I've read mixed views on if it'll even work so thought I'd ask here, as you're a trusty bunch!

Randomface74 · 21 Feb 2018 at 12:29

Yeah that's fine, people often add more ram. Getting the same kit avoids the common pitfalls.

Silent_Scone · 21 Feb 2018 at 12:36

billysielu said:
Yeah that's fine, people often add more ram. Getting the same kit avoids the common pitfalls.

lol.

Semiskimmed said:
A couple of weeks ago I bought a 2x 4GB kit of ddr4 to go with a ryzen CPU.

I'm now considering buying another kit so I can run 16GB total. I'll get the same kit as before but do realise it may be slightly different.

I've read mixed views on if it'll even work so thought I'd ask here, as you're a trusty bunch!

Typically, it's ill-advised to mix memory kits. Might be best if you post what memory kits you're looking at.

Semiskimmed · 21 Feb 2018 at 22:09

It was this kit i bought:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...channel-kit-black-grey-tdged48-my-09n-tg.html

Silent_Scone · 22 Feb 2018 at 08:47

You can mix them, but be aware you may well have to make concessions to both timings and frequency to get them to work

Semiskimmed · 22 Feb 2018 at 13:17

Im not going to be trying to overclock it, just running it at stock speeds. Is there still a chance it wont hit the default speeds/timings etc?

Thanks all!

Devrij · 25 Feb 2018 at 07:17

Semiskimmed said:
Im not going to be trying to overclock it, just running it at stock speeds. Is there still a chance it wont hit the default speeds/timings etc?

Thanks all!

You'll be fine. It's more of a consideration when overclocking.