What’s the difference between buying memory seperately rather than in kits?

alpha_technogoddess: What’s the difference between buying memory seperately rather than in kits?
I’m in the market for 4gigs of memory for my soon to be laptop. Kits are hard to find and aren’t usually in stock. I’m buying Crucial brand by the way. I can get 2gb sticks for cheaper than 2gb sticks in a kit. But I heard kits are better since they’re more likely to work together better? Is there really a difference if I were to buy just 2gb sticks of the same kind rather than an overpriced kit of the same product? Or is there something special about purchasing paired memory in kits?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Curtis
Normally when they are talking about kits it is because you have to populate two chips at the same time on some computers. You need to be careful that when you order a 2GB kit that you do not receive to 1GB chips. All memory should work with in tolerances set up by your board manufacture as long as you get the min speed required. Note what every the slowest chip you have will set up the speed of the rest of the chips.

Answer by Bjorn
Meh, there is really no need to get memory in a kit, especially if you are going Crucial.

The main reason they have kits are so people get memory that will run well in dual channel mode. But as long as you get two of the same model memory, you are not going to have any issues.