4gb of PC2-5300 vs 8gb of PC2-3200

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I have a HP xw6400. Currently I have 4gb of PC2-5300 running in it. I was recently given 8gb of PC2-3200 for free. Is it worth swapping out my PC2-5300 for the 8gb worth of PC2-3200, or should I just stick with the faster RAM?
 
Didn't realize how cheap RAM for this system was. Bought 8gb of PC2-5300, and I can use the slower RAM for a XW6200 I have laying around.
 
Ram is relatively cheap now a days, I don't really see much problems with getting more ram that is slightly slower vs having less being a little quicker. I think the performance is pretty marginal when you look at it. Who knows maybe you'll have use for the extra ram as well, having more for a relatively cheap price never hurts.
 
This thread is pretty much a moot point now, I ended up buying 8gb of the same speed that I already had. I already installed the new RAM and the benchmarks are pretty much identical from the 4gb.
 
There are not many scenarios where faster ram helps, other than for shared graphics memory, IO benchmarks and maybe some high end productivity software.

Do you have a discrete graphics card? If you do then absolutely go with the 8GB. I'd still probably go with the 8GB even if you had onboard graphics because like I said the memory speed is only the bottleneck in very specific situations, where if you were in that situation, you wouldn't be asking here.
 
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