Upgrading Ram

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Hi all, just a quick question regarding upgrading ram, if I have two slots, do both slots have to hold the same size stick, ie 4gb and 4gb, or could I have one of 4gb and one of 2gb, thanks
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If you just have an 8gb RAM stick spare and you want to try it, you can try it and it might work, but if buying from scratch just buy a RAM kit.
But also note it will only register as the lowest amount if you have two of different sizes, so 1 x 4gb and 1 8gb (if it works) will be 8gb, not 12gb. Also if you do this and later you get system stability issues or crashes, it's ikely to be the different RAM sticks so swap them out.
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As far as I can see, I can put unequal amounts up to 16gb, just like to hear people’s views, don’t want to put much more in but the problem I’m having is with my desktop, I recently reinstalled windows 7 and noticed straight away it would freeze, hang for abot 30 secs then would start working again, then it would happen again, so I reinstalled again, same problem, then I thought it could be because windows 7 no longer does updates, so I then loaded windows 10, but that has the same problem, I looked on you tube adjusted the power options, to no avail, have you guys got any ideas?, drivers are up to date, as I only installed yesterday, before I reinstalled, everything was working fine,so I wondered if by increasing the ram to something which I knew would be ok to run Windows 10, it would solve my problem thanks in advance
If your computer is freezing i really recommend you just take out the two stick you have and just put a new RAM kit in. RAM is so cheap now anyway and it may improve the system stability (stop it crashing) too.
No reason to cheap out on RAM; https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=smem9qah £14 for 2 x 4 GB or https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail/?id=smem8qaa £36 for 2 x 8 GB.
But fit the SSD first, as that will make all of the difference. If you have a spare SATA port, you can have the SSD as a Boot drive, keeping the 1TB for storage. Though I would check the health of the HDD.
You could but for the third time, two different RAM sticks could cause system instability. For <£20 is it really worth this risk of annoyance / crashing? Your choice but personally I'd just get a new RAM kit.