bad memory slow you down ?

FoskeyMedia wrote on 10/12/2015, 10:31 AM
No..notthe kind that comes with age. I have some pretty decent Cosair 16gb installed. I have 4gb of some OEM memory that came with my Dell about 6 years ago. I was thinking about adding the 4gb to get a total of 20 gbs. But will this additioanl memory (assuming it's slower and not as effecient as the cosair) just wind up slowing thigns down ? Kind of like the weakest link syndrone ?

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OldSmoke wrote on 10/12/2015, 1:08 PM
It's never a good idea to mix different memory modules and yes, all will be running at the slowest and worst case, the MB can't even set it up correctly and you end up tweaking the BIOS memory speed for each bank to match the others yourself.

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FoskeyMedia wrote on 10/12/2015, 2:05 PM
THanks. As I suspected. I'll stick with the 16. An extra 4gb wouldn't have made that much a difference I'm sure.,