quad or dual channel issues

[Yoshimitsu]

Good day.

I have the following system and please need advice on memory purchased.

I7 2600k
ASUS Maximus iv
2 x ocz 240gb ssd in raid
MSI 580 GTX lightning ockd

I ordered 16mb gskill 17000cl11d 16GBXL mem. Wasnt sure if tgis would be the fastest, after doing research have learned it isnt.

Supplier sent me 2 x 4mb packs x 2.. 17000cl11d 8GBXL.

MY questions are as follows. I ordered the quad's as they matched and i want good reliable.performance. with the two separate sets what guarantee do i have they will work well together?

Should i send back and insist on the quad or 4 sticks matched?

Was this model.of mem the best choice given my system specs and that i am shooting for big performance?


Thanking you in advance

Yosh

[Tradesman]

With two sets, there's no guarantee they will work together (especially with the higher freq sticks like 1866, 2000, 2133, 2400) so I'd see if they'll replace it with a 4 sticks set, that way they are tested to work together, and should work under under XMP, where as 2 sets won't allow you to use XMP. If you try the sticks together will prob have to raise DRAM voltage .05 or so and VCCIO (or CPU/VTT the MC (Memory Controller)) voltage .07 or maybe a little more.