Question about Ram frequency

[Fangman]

Hey all,

Just looking at which ram to buy, and I am wondering:
Is there any performance gain in games from using PC2-6400 ram over PC2-5400 ram. I am looking at either the G.SKill PC2-5400 or OCZ PC2-6400

EDIT: Now the choice is GeIL PC5300 or Corsair XMS2 PC6400 (if they come back into stock in the next few days)

What I am mostly asking is would the extra £35.25 be better invested into another component?

Current build planning to buy:

OcUK 9700GS 256mb
Gigabyte DS-3
Hiper 580W PSU
E6300 Conroe.

I intend to do some overclocking, since I head you can get an extra 0.5 GHZ out of the E6300 easily, and much more than that if I put some effort into it, but I am not going to go crazy on the OCing.

EDIT: OK, I heard that G.Skill and defiantly OCZ have compatibility problems with the DS3. I need ram that will defiantly work with the DS3, without bios updates. I have no spare DDR2 ram to do a bios update with, assuming the computer has to post to update bios.

 

[Defcon5]

given the low multi on the 6300, get the higher freq ram

 

[Cob]

Either get the Corsair or the Geil PC6400. The Geil has better timings than the Corsair.

They will both work fine 'out of the box' with the DS3.

 

[Fangman]

Well, I may go for the GeIL since it is on offer this week, only about £10 off but it's something, and it DOES seem to be good ram.

Just realized I am about £100 over budget. I could go ahead and spend an extra £100, but I would feel guilty doing that.