Corsair & Twinmos - work well together?

[floppybootstomp]

Currently have 2 x Corsair 256Mb PC2700 in My Gigabyte GA7N400L Pro 2, working in dual Channel Mode.

I have two spare Twinmos 256Mb PC2700. If I put these into slots 2 & 4 on the board, do you think they will work well together in dual channel mode? That'll obviously give me a Gig of memory but I'm worried the Twinmos might impede performance.

I just put 2 x Crucial 512Mb PC3200 in another machine, which left me with a 512Mb stick of Twinmos PC2700. I was going to put that in my daughter's Asrock board based machine, which has 2 x 256Mb PC2700 Twinmos in it, but it only has two slots. I thought I could put the 512Mb single stick in there and then put the 2 x 256Mb sticks in my Gigabyte board alongside the Corsair.

Or should I just sell the Twinmos single PC2700 512Mb stick?

[Scott]

Having 4 x 256 sticks will be better than having only two.. The different make, wont really make too much of a difference. But the 1gb as compared to 512meg will do

[floppybootstomp]

Thanks Scott, no harm in trying I suppose. I shall give it a go

[streetster]

some motherboards arent as stable when using all 4 DIMM sockets, so you might want to do a memtest86/prime95 test for a few hours to make sure everything is alright

[matt_hobson]

really? how do you run that test? i am probably going to buy a new Abit mobos with 4X512 Corsair Twinx Ram,

should i be that cautious about it then?

Matt

[streetster]

www.memtest86.com (boots off a floppy or cdrom) or Prime95

dont think its all motherboards, just certain ones - i think my kt333 board was a bit sketchy when i whacked 4 sticks of pc2700 in there, but i dont think all mobos have this problem

mark

[floppybootstomp]

OK, streetster, I have memtest on a CD, nifty little program that is I'll give it a run. Thanks.

[Kezzer]

I thought corsair had forced pro memory timings whereas TwinMOS does not?

[blockers]

If they dont work well together you can always slacken the timings, or increase the voltage. Also, you could try with the 512mb stick in rather than the 2x256mb....