can old ram damage a motherboard?

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I am throwing out a old computer with ram from 2010 for the new one I just built 4 days ago. I have 8 gigs of ram on this new one but 2 extra slots so i am thinking about taking 2 sticks from the old computer before getting rid of it. I have been told that if the ram were to burn out that it has a chance of the memory melting and ruining the motherboard completely, and I would like to know if this is true before shoving 5-6 year old ram into my brand new gaming computer if it is dangerous.
 
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The ram from 2010 would probably be DDR2. Your new machine would probably be DDR3. Would not work. Plus mixing non matching ram sticks is a fail even if they all are either DDR 2 or DDR3. You want to used matched pairs or four matched sticks if you have four ram slots just for an example.
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The ram from 2010 would probably be DDR2. Your new machine would probably be DDR3. Would not work. Plus mixing non matching ram sticks is a fail even if they all are either DDR 2 or DDR3. You want to used matched pairs or four matched sticks if you have four ram slots just for an example.
 
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