On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Jim Garrison wrote:
Each would likely work separately but you'd lose the dual-channel speed boost by installing only one. It depends on which motherboard you're using.
Jim, Currently, the two 4G modules are in slots A2 and B2. The motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth 990FX.
Yes, I've done this several times. Again, check your motherboard specs, but modern memory controllers are pretty good at figuring out what you have installed and using it, as long as the timings are acceptable.
While on the newegg.com web site I had a brief chat with a tech from G.Skill. He said that combining a pair of 8G modules and a pair of 4G modules might, or might not, work. Only trying would find out. So, rather than risk wasting a lot of money on modules that would not work (either way), I bought another pair of 4G modules of the same specs. A total of 16G RAM should greatly speed up processing of huge spatial and numerical data files compared with the 4G in my old 32-bit system. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
