Are there any benefits to using identical memory modules?

Are there any benefits from running eg. two identical 1G rams over two different, but same-clocked? The motherboard doesn’t support dual-channel operation.


I don't know if this is still the case any more, but I remember when my machine would not boot up when I added a second stick of RAM to my Pentium-III machine. It turned out that the BIOS was auto-configuring the RAM settings using the SPD information from the stick in Slot 1, when the stick in Slot 2 had slightly slower timings. So, swapping them over, or manually configuring the RAM settings was the solution.