General RAM Question

robbalmbra · 28 Aug 2011 at 19:08

I have a setup of 3 x 1GB RAM sticks in my i7 system, it is a tri channel setup. I have 2 more slots left, I am wondering if I can insert a different quantity into these slots. So another 3 x 2GB, will this work?

Thanks

Surveyor · 29 Aug 2011 at 20:06

It should work.

You'll need to match the RAM speed, timings and voltage.

If you have an overclock on the processor then filling all the RAM slots can affect this.

eddiew · 30 Aug 2011 at 08:37

Mixing capacity is not a problem - as Surveyor says, make sure you find sticks with comparable voltage and timings.

hominid · 30 Aug 2011 at 15:54

You'll need a 64 bit operating system to use ram > 3gb, so if you have 32bit windows you'll need to upgrade that also.

robbalmbra · 30 Aug 2011 at 16:01

32bit theoretically can address 4GB of RAM. 64bit a lot more. My bro has 86GB i think.

Surveyor · 30 Aug 2011 at 16:14

robbalmbra said:
32bit theoretically can address 4GB of RAM. 64bit a lot more. My bro has 86GB i think.

Is 86GB a typo?

robbalmbra · 30 Aug 2011 at 17:30

Nope, it's purpose is for thin clients. Tbh these days more ram is being used, some x58 boards support up to 48GB of RAM. At my work they have roughly 32GB of ram, and we still run out when processing lol.

Surveyor · 30 Aug 2011 at 17:54

robbalmbra said:
Nope, it's purpose is for thin clients. Tbh these days more ram is being used, some x58 boards support up to 48GB of RAM. At my work they have roughly 32GB of ram, and we still run out when processing lol.

86GB just doesn't seem to divide correctly between numbers of memory slots and DIMM sizes.

robbalmbra · 30 Aug 2011 at 18:11

Sorry it is 92GB.