16GB OId Abandoned Ram.

PaulW

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Hi,

a left over computer in our house has yielded some 16GB Ram

2X G. SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) PC3-12800 (DDR3-1600) Memory (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL)

in my system i currently have some old

Corsair 12GB DDR3 10666C9 1333MHz XMS3 TwinX Tri Channel Kit (6x2GB)

is it worth Swapping this out? the extra 4gb might be useful and the ram might be a bit quicker than my current.

Thanks

P
 
How much lower could that be? and which will be lower, the G.skills or the Corsairs?

Thanks for everyone's answers so far :)
 
cool, so really just give it a go tbh. as i could get 24GB of ram if this all works, right?
 
Cool I think it's a 6 slot but will have to check tomorrow. As long as there is no real chance of damaging the ram by using two different sets or motherboard then I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Not a great time for buying a new pc right now.
 
I believe my motherboard is the GA-X58A-UD7. Its pretty old now. Just like everything else on the PC. Still does the job till its the right time for the new system.
 
OK sorry for the delay decided it was a good morning to clean the car.

Anyway about to back up some work just In case before putting in the ram. I looked at the manual and this is what it says about 3 channel.

3 Channel--
1. 3 Channel mode cannot be enabled if only one or two DDR3 memory modules are installed.
2. When enabling 3 Channel mode with three, four or six modules, it is recommended that memory of the
same capacity, brand, speed, and chips be used. When enabling 3 Channel mode with three memory
modules, be sure to install them in the DDR3_1, DDR3_3 and DDR3_5 sockets. When enabling 3 Channel
mode with four memory modules, be sure to install them in the DDR3_1, DDR3_2, DDR3_3 and DDR3_5
sockets

So I'm guessing for this as im not a ram expert, that I put the corsairs sticks in slots 1,2, 3 and 5 and the gskils in 4 and 6.?

Am I correct here or does it not matter?
 
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Placed them in the slots. Looks like it's failing to boot stuck on a windows logo and a loading circle . I didn't see anything about flex mode. Any ideas what to try next?
 
so it booted this time with just the 2 Gskill sticks in. but i feel like this has been a bit of a wild goose chase its saying my total memory is 8GB...i was expecting 16GB.

so the sticker on the Ram says its F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL but CPUZ is displaying a different part number F3-12800CL9-4GBXL

that says to me its been mislabelled. i love a wild goose chase!
 
would 10 gb be the max i could use here? they did feel faster. but i was already maxing the 8gb with some intensive programs.
 
that didn't work i tried the full set + the two slots that worked and i had a crash and a restart on boot.
then i removed the others but kept slot 5 for the triple channel, but that again crashed and restarted on boot.

i think they just do not want to work together. too bad but hey least we tried :) and thanks you and everyone else for helping me :)
 
yeah it could well be but i think i'll call it quits. tried getting it to work but i don't want to fiddle around to much with the bios and end up with a system that ceases to work with my existing ram. Thanks again from all your help Joxeon :)
 
how do i update the Bios safely? is using @BIOS and updating from Gigabytes severs the best way. there does look to be 2 memory updates available.
 
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