Will these two sets of ram work together?

**mamamia88** · April 21st, 2014

I have an older desktop with 2gb ram. I don't particulary feel like spending a bunch of money on a ram upgrade but, it was pretty damn chap. I bought 2gb of dell ram at 6-6-6 frequency that should work according to the spec sheet for my computer. But, the ram inside my computer is labeled 5-5-5-18. Will this cause any problems for me? It was cheap enough $12 but, if it won't work I'd like to contact the seller before they ship. I'll post pics of both just in case that helps. $_57.jpg 2014-04-21 15.46.41.jpg

**mamamia88** · April 21st, 2014

sorry to bump but anyone?

**oldos2er** · April 22nd, 2014

Please wait at least 24 hours before bumping, we have members from all over the globe and it takes time for everyone to see your post.

**sffvba[e0rt** · April 22nd, 2014

These are the different timings on your RAM. If you put mixed ones they will default to the lowest speed (which means if you have very fast and very slow RAM you end up having slow RAM). In your case there doesn't seem to be a huge different in the timings and I think that the boost of having 4GB RAM outways any loss in speed you might suffer.

Some more reading -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_timings
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...RAM-Timings/26

**mamamia88** · April 22nd, 2014

Originally Posted by not found

These are the different timings on your RAM. If you put mixed ones they will default to the lowest speed (which means if you have very fast and very slow RAM you end up having slow RAM). In your case there doesn't seem to be a huge different in the timings and I think that the boost of having 4GB RAM outways any loss in speed you might suffer.

Some more reading -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_timings
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...RAM-Timings/26

Hey thanks alot. Sorry for bumping earlier but, I just wanted to make sure