xfx 790i ultra motherboard

[moneyshot]

ok so i have a question i just bought this board.. got it and i put it in with 2 2 gig sticks of ram. and i bought 2 1 gigs sticks of the same kind same freqency. can i mix them?? like put the 2 2 gig sticks on channle a and putthe 2 1 gigs sticks on channle b or should i put 2 gigs and 1 gig on 1 channle and the other 2 sticks on the other channle?? i hope this is possible. or i just wasited my money.. wil it hurt or burn something up if i went ahead poped them in and try it?? or wil it just not boot up. im running 64 bit windows 7 so itl see it and use it. or use most of it anyways. many thanks

[Ket]

If the memory is from the same manufacturer and of the same series for both kits, one just being lower capacity, then you will likely be ok.

[NKrader]

yay i <3 790i chipset

[Ket]

^What the hell did that have to do with anything?

[NKrader]

^What the hell did that have to do with anything?

man leave it to you to call me out again.. lol first with GTX480 being a low wattage card and now.. lol i forgot to post reply lol...

yes you can mix ram like that.

should go both of same size on same channel. so 2gb/1gb/2gb/1gb

[Ket]

I'm like a mod when it suits me.. the rest of the time it suits me fine arsing around with everyone else

[moneyshot]

yes it did work. but im haven second thoughts on this.. wouldnt i get better performance if i took out the patriots 1 gig sticks 9-9-9-24 and left in the 2 gig supertalent 8-8-8-24 sticks.. sales the patriots for cheap and in time just get another set of supertalent 8-8-8-24 i heard the 8-8-8-24 are better and 4 gigs would be fine. i really didnt see a performance boose with all 6 gigs in. hmmmmm and when i do this should i take the 2 gigs sticks out and put them in the slots closest to the cpu? or does that matter. right now i have them in the slots furthest.. say if the one by the cpu was 0 1 2 3 i have the 2 gigs in 1 and 3 so if i take them out put the 2 gigs in 0 and 2? i do no some about pcs.. but i just want what u guys think the best way to get the bang of performance.