Do Haswell boards accept odd sticks?

[englishpremier]

Been a while since I last bought some memory.

On a Haswell board do memory sticks need to be in pairs or can I just through in a single 8GB stick as oppose to two 4gb sticks?

Thanks

 

[rtho782]

You can put in just a single stick, you can even mismatch sticks but might have to reduce clocks/timings to lowest common denominator or worse.

 

[Vesper]

Mixing sticks is generally advised against, mostly due to how different they process data.

Also just saves the headache if something does go wrong.

 

[troops]

The only way to find out is try it i guess.

 

[MasterOC]

They should do , they will just run at the speeds of the slowest dimm or may need a manual configuration ( slower speeds or more voltage )

 

[englishpremier]

Cheers. I just want to throw an 8gb stick in my desktop to replace the two 2gb. I can then always add another 8gb later.