minimum ram for q6600?

[beano]

I'm building a new system with an Asus p5k dlx and q6600 processor... My friend has 4gigs of ddr2 5300 ram that i can have, and i was just wandering if this would run the system!?!

The last pc i built was an old amd 500mb job, so i'm probably going to be asking a lot of stupid question lol!

 

[beano]

Thanks Kojak.

I'm not too worried about overclocking for the moment, i just want to get it up and running smoothly (as cheaply as possible lol).

 

[beano]

Thanks vertigo1. Looks like i'm in luck, as my mate has 4gig of pc 5300 which i can have for nothing, so that's definitely the route i'll take.

Just out of curiosity, would there be any noticeable difference in performance between the 4gig of pc 5300 and 2gig of pc2 8500? would the extra 2gig make up for the slower ram!?!

cheers

 

[beano]

Ah ok thanks guy's.