G.skill Ares and Corsair vengeance

[Feronix]

Hello everyone!

I'm considering to buy an i5 3570k for my next build, which will be placed on the Biostar z77 mainboard. Now this board has a really nice black and orange colour scheme, and as I want to make a window in my CM Storm Trooper, I thought about using a 2x4GB G.skill Ares kit on it.

Now, I don't want all my slots to be filled with orange dimms. I'd prefer to have 2 orange dimms as well as 2 black ones. I know you should always use the same RAM, but painting the Ares heatspreaders black is not going to happen. That's way too much hassle and too much that can go wrong.

So now I was thinking about pairing it up with some Corsair Vengeance low profile dimms. These are about the same height, but with black heatspreaders. Both kits have the same speed, voltage and latencies. The only difference seems to be the brand and the looks.

My question: Will it give any problems if I use the 2 different dimms? I'll be installing the Ares in channel A/1 and the Vengeance in channel B/2 (or the other way around)

I'd like to hear your advice guys! I'm open to suggestions of using other RAM as long as they fit the colour scheme.

~Feronix

 

[andrewmchugh]

Thats fine mate. You can even run different make modules in the paired dimms in dual channel as long as they are the same spec.

 

[giannakos23]

imho you would be better off getting 4 dimms fro the same brand and be a little more protected because if you are planning on overclocking this would probably cause instabilities !!! i believe that a little bit more orange in the build wouldn't hurt at all as the biostar board has a lovely black pcb and orange heatspreaders !!

 

[Feronix]

imho you would be better off getting 4 dimms fro the same brand and be a little more protected because if you are planning on overclocking this would probably cause instabilities !!! i believe that a little bit more orange in the build wouldn't hurt at all as the biostar board has a lovely black pcb and orange heatspreaders !!

I do not plan on overclocking the RAM, considering it's 1600MHz and the main purpose for the build is gaming and a little bit of video editing. However, I do plan to overclock the 3570k and I've heard that overclocking your CPU can affect your RAM in a certain way?

Right now, I don't have the budget to buy either both 2x4 kits or one 4x4 kit, so I'll have to do with 8GB at first and upgrade to 16GB at a later stage. I know some people will now advice me to not do that and buy a 4x4 kit straight away, but that isn't really an option for me.

 

[giannakos23]

well if you are on a budget just wait and save some money for a 4x4 kit ...otherwise buy what you were going to buy originally !! but again it would better if you were to go with same brand !!

 

[Feronix]

well if you are on a budget just wait and save some money for a 4x4 kit ...otherwise buy what you were going to buy originally !! but again it would better if you were to go with same brand !!

Honestly, as long as the combination of the 2 brands works fine and does not cause any problems with my system, it's fine by me. I don't really care about an extra 2 fps, 3 seconds faster boot or a video that takes 10 seconds less to render.

All I want to know is if it works

 

[jamesriley94]

Different RAM will only affect overclocking if you try to overclock the RAM itself.

It wont matter in your case because on Ivybridge you only have to increase the multiplier and not the BCLK and so RAM wont cause any issues.
Make sure they're 1.5v or under though, and make sure they're the same frequency and timings

 

[Feronix]

Different RAM will only affect overclocking if you try to overclock the RAM itself.

It wont matter in your case because on Ivybridge you only have to increase the multiplier and not the BCLK and so RAM wont cause any issues.
Make sure they're 1.5v or under though, and make sure they're the same frequency and timings

Thanks mate, really helpfull!

Both kits are exactly 1.5v, 1600MHz and have a latency of 9-9-9-24 so I think that should be fine
Also didn't know that about the Ivy Bridge, I'm a proper noob when it comes down to overclocking

Thanks for your reply!