Tom's Hardware > Forum > Graphic & Displays > Graphics Cards > Compatibility with motherboard

Compatibility with motherboard

Forum Graphic & Displays : Graphics Cards - Compatibility with motherboard

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
Miraho   12-28-2008 at 05:40:43 PM

So basically I am probably buying a customized pc with MSI G31M3-F Motherboard. Now I am going to choose integrated graphics because I want to put my own graphics card in (their options are pitiful). I was reading the FAQ and the best for around 100 is the 8800 GT. I have been reading that its a PCI-E slot, which this motherboard has but it says whenever I search for it on tigerdirect or newegg its DDR3, the motherboard only supports DDR2 memory, is the graphical memory and RAm different? Will my motherboard support the 8800 GT. Am I just getting DDR2 and DDR3 (for graphics cards / ram) mixed up? Just trying t make sure here, I would think my motherboard can run:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814133205
Correct? ALso what is the deal with PCIe 2.0?
Not sure if there is also a better GeForce 8800 out there for around the same price, if there is please let me know.

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
mactronix   12-28-2008 at 08:25:17 PM
- 0 +

Ok so first if the motherboard has a PCIE slot then it will run any card that goes in a PCIE slot. A card that is PCIE 2.0 will run in a 1.0 slot and a 1.0 card will also run in a 2.0 slot.
The memory dosent matter, System RAM dosent have to match graphics RAM. Your motherboard can only run DDR2, but your graphics card could be DDR2/GDDR2 GDDR3 or 4 or 5 it will still run.
Card wise, well what monitor size/ resolution are we talking here ? My personal preferance up to about a 22" screen would be a HD4850. While the 8800 series isnt a bad card they are getting on a bit now and the 4850 while about $30 more will be noticably better than the 8800 cards.

Mactronix

Reply to mactronix
Miraho   12-28-2008 at 08:33:44 PM
- 0 +

Okay the monitor I bought was
Acer X193W+BD Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 2000:1 (ACM)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824009127

What do you suggest then?

Reply to Miraho
mactronix   12-28-2008 at 08:55:40 PM
- 0 +

Well personally i would go with the HD4850 for around that price point. What CPU is this machine running by the way ? If its not about 2.4 GHZ core 2 then its not going to feed a 4850 properly anyway and you may as well stick to the 8800.

mactronix

Reply to mactronix
Miraho   12-28-2008 at 09:46:20 PM
- 0 +

It'll either be a 2.66 duo core or a 3.0 duo core, haven't decided yet.

Reply to Miraho
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Graphic & Displays > Graphics Cards > Compatibility with motherboard
Go to:

There are 452 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.795 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them