RAM help- buying new- is it worth it?

[claypigeon101]

Hey guys, quick question...

I have a 5 year old Aldi Medion PC with a recently fried RAM chip for some reason, now that is DDr2 PC2-5300 or 6400 and it's about £30 to put 2GB of RAM into it to replace.

However my high spec system (see my sig) has 4GB PC2-6400 RAM and it seems to work out cheaper to replace the RAM for that as DDR3 than buy some older DDR2...

My question is I have a gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 motherboard and an AMD Phenom2 965 [email protected] I use DDR3 and if so what speed?

Cos DDR3 is cheaper than DDR2 so if i can get DDR3 in my newer system (maybe 4GB+) then I can use my current OCZ DDR2 in my Aldi system as the general family computer.

Any advice?
Thanks

 

[EGuitarStar]

Your board does not support DDR3.

This is a link here to your motherboard page, you will find all sorts of info here regarding DDR2 memory speed and support.

 

[claypigeon101]

Cool, I hoped I was wrong but I suspected as much when I read that earlier today.
What would you advise is the best RAM kit to get to get me to 6 or 8gb?
Thanks guys

 

[EGuitarStar]

Depends what you use your machine for. Most users including gamers will be fine with 4GB. I recently went up to 8GB but I use premiere pro for HD video editing and some extensive photoshop work but the 8GB appears to have not made a difference in games from the 4GB