Faulty motherboard or just bad RAM sticks?

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I wanted to increase RAM in my PC and after running with 6GB for a while all Ram sticks started to go bad one after other with constant BSOD crashes while running games and when RAM tried to go above 65% usage. These stick however was not from the same make and two of these were used RAM sticks

Im thinking of buying these new RAM for my PC

https://www.amazon.com/Komputerbay-800MHz-PC2-6300-PC2-6400-Desktop/dp/B004LT6O56/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_t_2/140-6088351-5632854?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PXJVVGG1R8EPF3123G05

but I'm not sure if i should buy these because of previous RAMs going bad one after other - which might also be possible that they were old , two of them used and weren't same or is it bad motherboard
 
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No guarantees because sometimes Dell motherboards will only support certain capacities(2Gb, 4GB) of ram. It is a limitation of their BIOS. They want to sell you a new computer with more ram rather than let you upgrade your existing machine.
According to the user manual for your machine, it will only support 2GB ram sticks for a total of 8GB (4x2GB).

EDIT: just noticed that the ram you intend to purchase is in fact a set of 2 2GB sticks of ram, (at first reading, I thought it was 1 4GB stick) so it should fit and work

We need to know what, exact, motherboard you have to give a meaningful answer.

 

Broplshelp

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No guarantees because i'm buying them from online/something like that or because my PC mobo might have probs?
 

No guarantees because sometimes Dell motherboards will only support certain capacities(2Gb, 4GB) of ram. It is a limitation of their BIOS. They want to sell you a new computer with more ram rather than let you upgrade your existing machine.
According to the user manual for your machine, it will only support 2GB ram sticks for a total of 8GB (4x2GB).

EDIT: just noticed that the ram you intend to purchase is in fact a set of 2 2GB sticks of ram, (at first reading, I thought it was 1 4GB stick) so it should fit and work
 
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