Mushkin + PNY

[Arcuivie]

About six months ago my pair of Mushkin RAM sticks fried (surge). Well, I got some new RAM (PNY from CompUSA, f-in expensive) and have been using them ever since. Well, I remembered there was a lifetime warranty on the RAM, so I e-mailed them, packaged, and shipped them off. Mushkin sent me two new sticks of RAM and they have been sitting in my car ever since. What I'm wondering, now that I'm building my new computer, is if the PNY (PC3200, 1 gig (2 sticks)) and the Mushkin (PC3200 1 gig(two sticks)) will work together, or will it be more of a "the chain is only as strong as its weakest link" kinda thing (because there is no doubt in my mind that the Mushkin is superior to the PNY).

 

[AristoV300]

You can put them together, not recommended, but it will work. Overclocking is where you really would run into problems. Just for timings it would have to use the loose 2 pairs, if they run different ones.

 

[Arcuivie]

Do you think I'll see better performance from just running one of the pair than the two together, non-overclocking. And if I DO decide to overclock, would them having the same memory timings make things work?

 

[AristoV300]

You can't overclock very well with 4 dimms to begin with, let alone mixing memory. Just curious but why do you need 2gig of RAM. I would just stick with 1 pair and sell off the other.

 

[Arcuivie]

I do a lot of graphic/3d rendering work that is pretty RAM dependant.

I was actually thinking about that, but more along the lines of selling the PNY and using the money + a bit more to buy another pair of LV2 Mushkin.

Why can't you overclock well with 4 dimms?

 

[Arcuivie]

Don't mean to double post but bump-i-dy bump.