PP Mguire
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And it's all BS. Little piece of advice from somebody who has been going to Newegg close to when they first opened the site up. 90% of the reviews on there are crap. Google the specific kit you want and look for reviews from sites like Toms Hardware, Anandtech, Techpowerup, Bjorn3d, Here, ect. As long as the DDR3 in question isn't the higher up voltage (almost non existant these days) then mixing and matching is perfectly fine. The timings and clocks are set to match the slowest sticks. If they are 2 exact same kits then there will be no problems.Yeah the build in my Sig is LONG gone...and theres not edit button to change it so i dont know what to do about that. I sold that computer a long time ago due to Wife aggro.
Now I currently have:
E6600
500GB HDD
2 GB DDR2 800
7800GTX
As far as the DDR3 Ripjaws, just read the reviews on newegg. There is a lot of people complaining about that issue. The manufacturer actually comments on some of them stating that each kit is only made to worth with the RAM inside each kit.
As to G.Skill commenting that, they just want people to buy their more expensive kits that are "matched". I guarantee you they are the same as slapping two kits together. Also, some AMD setups have problems running all slots at the same time, but that was a problem with older setups and overclocking.