Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

/me likes samsung... they make silent HDD...:D

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

i wouldn't mix brands unless they are they EXACT same specs... like chip arrangement, size, registered, ECC, speed


and did you say it came with a blue heat spreader on it... i can tink of a few brands that use those.... Giel, Kingston, and i think corsair does. yeah maby if you provide a picture i can compare them

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

AIDA32 is a utility free for personal use (a bit like SiSoft Sandra) that can tell you that.

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

Ok, if i'm going to mix brands of ram, exactly which specs should i make sure are the same?

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

latency is the main one... I restored my whole system before I found out about that.

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

You mean you had fast timings set uüp in the BIOS, and your first memory stick could handle them. But when you added a second stick, you had to find out that it didn't run at such fast timigs, huh? Or did you mean something else? 'Cuz that can indeed be a problem...

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

Take care of RAM type, bus speed and latency, and you're set.

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

no, they were both nearly to0p of the range sticks, but one was more top of the range than the other. My BIOS didn't have any latency settings - something quite a few people I have spoken to find weird.

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

That's indeed odd and normally something only to be found on cheaper MoBos... at least AFAIK.

Re: Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

what is latency for ram? Could you give me an example?