Would I suffer any problems by doing this?

[shard]

I am wanting to pic up another 1gb of ram for BF2, and currently I have 2x512 of OCZ Value VX. I dont want to just go out and buy a 2gb kit. Also I am using the DFI NF3 250gb, wich only has 3 DIMM slots. Would I be safe by just buying a cheap stick of 1gb ram, and sticking it in there? I wont be overclocking, and my board is not dual channel. So what say ye?

Also could someone suggest some good real cheap 1gb stick of ram? I have seen some G. Skill Value for 70 on the egg, but is there better deals? Remember, I want just one large stick of ram, not a dual chanell kit (2x512).

Thank you.

[Bullnettles]

I'd say go with the the G. Skill value since no OC is required. Not too sure how close the timings need to be to the other sticks though.

[Captain Helghas]

I would think the timings would be set by the weakest link in the three, which will probably be your cheap 1gb.

[shard]

Ok, got a weird one. Got that ram today, stuck it in the third slot, and fired up the comp, instant blue screen when trying to load windows. Well, oops, I think I forgot that the bigger stick tends to need to be in the first slot, so I fix that, and try again, boots into windows, but only shows up as 1.5gb, wtf? I go to try to start firefox, and get a no memory at memory address error. So I restart, and play around in bios again, check that I am not OCing or anything, and see that I am still running my VX's at 2.8V, so I turn it down to about 2.6V and run memtest, Errors at every single address accross the ram array. So I go back in, and just for the hell of it, set it to 2.5V, boot without testing with memtest, now here I am typing this out. Any idea WHY this did that?

[castroman]

Luck?

[rseven]

Mixing ram IC's is a bad idea. On some mobos it's a total disaster. The only thing I can suggest is to set your bios to the timings of the slowest ram as Bullnettles suggested. The voltage issue may be caused by the VX needing high voltage and the GSkill needing low voltage. This is really a bad combination to have in one board. You may just have to return the new ram.