Is this compatibility right?

[Advice Pro]

My desktop PC, Gateway GT 5668E, came installed with 3 Gb. of 240 pin DIMM DDR2 PC2-5300. The motherboard does support DDR2 800 MHz of SDRAM. I want to try 800 MHz, but Newegg doesn't have a category for DDR2 800 MHz PC2-5300, only DDR2 800 MHz PC2-6400. Well my motherboard take DDR2 800 MHz PC2-6400?

 

[Maziar]

DDR2 533 is PC2 5300 and DDR2 800 is PC2 6400,we don't have anything called DDR2 800 PC2 5300,since your motherboard supports DDR2 800 then u can buy a DDR2 800 RAM

 

[Advice Pro]

You mean DDR2 800 MHZ PC2 6400, right?

 

[Maziar]

Yes

 

[cobot]

If you are looking for a large performance boost, you will be disappointed, though.

The difference will be neglectable.

 

[shubham1401]

Yes the difference will be negligible.
You shuld not spend ur money on that.

 

[Advice Pro]

What is latency and does it matter

 

[Maziar]

Latency is the timings of your RAMs and lower timings are better,but timings/MHZ doesn't make a a lot of difference in performance,they are mainly important if u want to OverClock.