Board supports DDR3 and DDR2, should I 'upgrade'?

[MissChief]

My Gigabyte P35 board supports DDR2 as well as DDR3 and I currently have 4 1Gb DDR2 sticks in there. Would I see any benefit in changing that to 2x2GB DDR3 sticks? I do want to upgrade at some point to i5 or i7 but you'll be talking the end of next year, maybe even 2012 by which time DDR3 will probably be cheap as chips but DDR3 prices are pretty good atm, would I see any noticable difference?

I'm not too keen on OC'ing the E8400 I have as every previous attempt has resulted in a non boot, CMOS reset scenario. Thoughts?

 

[MissChief]

Well i followed that guide although some of the functions like changing the memory timings weren't available. I upped for core to the suggested frequency and saved, and nada happened. Chip still running at 3Ghz. meh I'm happy enough with it!