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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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You won't realistically notice a difference using mismatched RAM. If you ran benchmarks you might, but in day to day usage, you won't see it
I am not really talking about mismatched. I am talking about getting the exact model VS getting two fresh sticks and retire the original one. It doesn't sound like both situation would create problems, again, sounds. In any case, in both cases it would be 2400MHz sticks because it appears to be the only supported frequency.
Buying one stick to match the one you already have is technically mismatching. Unless you get extremely lucky and end up with another stick from the same batch as the first, there will probably be some slight differences.
A lot of what you see online says that this is bad, and you should buy both sticks as a set, but realistically, you won't see a difference.
I've been doing it for decades, and never seen an issue, and that's in gaming and photo and video work :)