Would it be ok to mix these?

[HecklerUK]

Got 4GB (2x2GB) of arianet DDR2 800 in my main PC and 2GB (2x1GB) of the same in my HTPC.

Was thinking of upgrading the HTPC to 4GB (2x2GB) as it only has 2 slots and was thinking of adding the 2x1GB into my main PC as it's got 4 slots (matched pairs I believe).


Don't want to spend the dosh unless I'm gonna see a significant enough improvement on the main PC. It will certainly help the HTPC as I'm finding that with my huge media collection and media browser, it's using more resources than it used to. Doubling the memory would resolve any potential issues as my media grows larger.

[IanS]

I don't think you'd have any problem mixing them, but I wouldn't think you'd get a big improvement in performance on your main PC, unless your using very heavyweight apps.
Your HTPC should see a nice gain going to 4GB.

[gray.woodford]

htpc will run nicely on the 4gb of ram, should be s**t hot.

[Andrew Moore]

Take the ram out of your htpc and try your pc first. Then take the ram out f your pc and try the htpc,

if your happy, purchase. If not, don't.


Andy

[HecklerUK]

I don't think you'd have any problem mixing them, but I wouldn't think you'd get a big improvement in performance on your main PC, unless your using very heavyweight apps.
Your HTPC should see a nice gain going to 4GB.


GTA IV could certainly do with some extra ram, it struggles like a pig... mainly because it's so badly coded... Not unknown for it to consume massive amounts of memory.

Then there's some photoshop and video enecoding stuff...

[osx]

I would split the RAM and give 3GB in each machine. There is no performance hit from 4GB to 3GB (let's say 3-5% which you will not be able to tell anyway).

[HecklerUK]

It's paired memory and runs in dual channel... so there would be a performance hit.