RAM Question

I am about to add RAM to my Aventum 3, and I want to order Corsair Vengeance DDR4 16x2 GB 3000MHz RAM sticks. I do not know what brand of RAM is currently in my Aventum, it just says Digital Storm. Will it matter what brand I add if its the same type and speed of RAM? I have been reading conflicting info on mixing brands and was wondering if anyone here has done that and their experiences with it. Thanks!!!

Thanks. I checked my mother board to verify the RAM I will be using is compatible and I am going to be doing it as a pair. So, I will have 2 pairs, one set from DS and the other from Corsair. They are both the same type and speed so hopefully there wont be an issue. Thanks for the info.

My MB is the MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon and I am running Windows 10 64 bit. Hopefully that is what you were referring to.

So I added the Corsair RAM to my computer. The other 2 sticks are ADATA RAM, but the specs on both sets are exactly the same, DDR4 2x16GB 3000MHZ, same latency 16-18-18-36 and 1.35V performance value. I installed the RAM and the computer acknowledged the new RAM and I went into the BIOS and enabled XMP. I only had one profile and I used auto which changed it to 3000MHz and used the 16-18-18-36 latency.

Once booted in I started getting issues with Chrome pages going Aw Snap and if I started doing multi tasking the computer would reboot. I tried reseating the RAM sticks to make sure they were in properly and tried several more times. Same thing, after about 5 minutes the computer would freeze then reboot, no blue screens of death though. I turned off XMP to make sure I didn't have bad RAM sticks and everything worked fine, just at 2133MHz or something like that.

So after about an hour of it being stable like that and doing alot of gaming and multitasking without a reboot I went back in to XMP and manually set it for 2800MHz, and everything was fine. I went back in and upped it in stages to see what was the max stable speed. I found 2933 MHz is the max I can go with the computer still being stable.

I guess this may be from the fact that its 2 different brands, not sure, but I really don't think I will see a huge performance gain from 67MHz!!! Anyone have any ideas if this is normal or what could be the cause? I am more curious then worried, since I really don't think there is a huge loss. Thanks!!!

Edited by Ravenwjf - 11 Jan 2018 at 5:40am

Thanks for the response. I will probably try that this weekend with the XMP on just the Corsair set. I guess I should state that I just realized I had never OC'd my original RAM. So, it maybe either set has a stick acting up, or just the little difference in manufacturers causing it. Again, not worried about a 67MHz difference just curious now. Thanks again.