How important is it to match memory brands?

Psyk · 4 Mar 2006 at 13:35

I've got two 512MB sticks of GeIL value memory at the moment and I'm looking to upgrade to 2GB. Is it important that I get the same brand of memory? Or will everything work fine with different brands?

dale1uk · 4 Mar 2006 at 14:30

should work but it can depend on your motherboard. It will also run at the lowest spec'd memory's speeds and at 2t if your on A64.

Psyk · 4 Mar 2006 at 15:59

What does 2t mean?

blaupunkt · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:24

even with just 2x1gb sticks of ram its not forced to run in 1T tho, well, mine wont and i have some OCZ 4000 2x1gb sticks that refuse to run in 1T.

dale1uk · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:31

Psyk said:
What does 2t mean?

Not 100% sure exactly but its to do with memory speeds with 1t being about 5-10% faster than 2t. 4 sticks will only run at 2t and in most cases a kit of 2 sticks will run at 1t unless its clocked too much and you have to slacken timings to keep it stable

blaupunkt · 4 Mar 2006 at 22:15

after much messing about i think i might have cracked 1T setting!

Chris19 · 5 Mar 2006 at 15:11

i thought 1t means it passes the data through the ram in one cycle and 2t its 2 cycles