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I have 4 gig of ddr2 one lot 2 gig is pc5300 the other is pc6400 is this going to cause me trouble? and do i need to get matching ram?
 
It might work, it might not. Remember that any settings you apply such as clock speed and voltage will apply to both sets of RAM, so it's a question of "will they both run under x volts and y clock speed and timings?"

I've managed to run 2 sets of wildly different RAM together before. One was 2GB rated at 667MHz, 5-5-5-15 timings at 1.8v. The other was 2GB rated at 800MHz, 4-4-4-12 timings at 2.1v. To get it to run, I had to drop voltage to 1.9 and run at 667MHz. It turned out both sets would run under those conditions (although not entirely stably).
 
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