Just How Bad is Mixing Memory?

Madison playing the role of a mad scientist is quite fitting

How about a tech tip for you guys: If you make charts that compare things, put them both on the screen at the same time, so you can actually compare them.

I've been using 32gb (4x8gb) of ram with my b450 and Ryzen 5 5600 for over a couple months with 100% reliability, 2 sticks are 3200 and the other 2 are 2666. I don't care a terrible about about speed, so I set them all to run slower at 2666 and have had absolutely no issues

I've mixed before and as long as the speed and timings match I've honestly always been able to run dual channel.. Both on AMD and Intel systems. I know this was a problem 10+ years ago but nowadays it's not that bad at all.

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MTT? I'm down.

20 years ago it was the same problem with Cas timing. Size of MB or GB was not important... the chip on the module were! As long as u had the minimum recommendation, it worked and upgrade were easier. Hundreds of my customers were happy and they all thought I had magic special upgrades for their computers🤣Samsung and Micron were King👑 back then. Great test Linus ✊ Running Pentium 3 and Tx motherboards Cas and Latency were and still are important 😎

I mixed 2 sets of 2x4 ddr3, different speeds. Only thing that caused issues was having XMP enabled, but I was able to OC the lower speed ram manually and have been running it like that for at least 3 years

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I'm waiting for another Mean Comments video where it's just Madison reading all of them to Linus, then she shows the cards and they're all blank.

thank god there is linus to answer all of our random computer questions

Thanks for another very informative computer related video. I was always told mixing RAM modules would cause problems, but I have an ASUS E35M1-M Pro motherboard from 2011, which has two sticks of DDR3 4 GB RAM; one Corsair XMS-3 and one 'no-name' stick of DDR3 4 GB RAM. They've worked happily alongside each other in my Spare PC since 2015, when I built my gaming PC. So much for all the warnings of 'dire consequences' from various 'experts'. Keep'em coming. Russ. UK

I love how madison is acting like she is installing the ram in the intro and then we zoom into some else's fingers pushing it into the slot.

Shout out to the notebooks with unremovable 4GB RAM and one extra slot when they support up to 32GB of RAM 🚮

"Everyone knows mixing different RAM is bad" and here is me who didn't know

I remember many moons ago I had done this (back when I had ZERO clue about Speeds/Timings etc) I was surprised to find that I could successfully run 2x Kingston Hyper X 8GB and 2x Ripjaw 8GB DDR3's (unfortunately I no longer have these sticks and still to this day have no clue what the clock speeds or the timings were), never once had a bluescreen (that I am aware of) in regards to the RAM and never had to tweak anything in the bios it was just simply plug and play. I am pleased to announce that I am no longer working with a $0 budget and using every hammy down possible to upgrade my system I now have fully populated 4x 8gb Corsair Vengeance and it looks a lot nicer than having 2x Mid Sized Black Ram Sticks and 2x Jumbo Red Ram Sticks :P

"You've got to be very careful about how you populate your slots." Good general life advice, honestly.

"As long as your workload doesn't exceed the capacity of the smallest module" Ah, maybe that extra 2 GB stick in my computer isn't a good idea...

Great video! I work at Best Buy and this video gave me. better understanding of RAM compatibility that I can communicate to customers. Thank you!

Upgraded my GF's HP all-in-one PC awhile back with a memory module (and an SSD too) that I had laying around in the 'ol spares box, worked great. And just bought myself a lenovo T580 laptop and upped it from 8 GB to 24 GB using the OE 8 GB stick and a new16 GB stick and it's cruising along just perfectly. So it can be done.