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Anonymous   03-20-2009 at 04:26:45 PM

I have a quad core Q6600 processor running on a Gigabyte S series board with 4 Gb of memory. I am using a geforce 9500 GT 512 mb DDR2. My question is, can I run a newer DDR3 GPU?

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cjl   03-20-2009 at 05:04:59 PM
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Sure.

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lostandwandering   03-21-2009 at 06:51:40 AM
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Yes. If you were concerned about the fact that your mobo runs DDR2 and the card would run DDR3, there isn't an issue there. The memory used by the system is different than the memory used on a graphics card. There is no conflict.

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caniba   03-21-2009 at 07:45:53 AM
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Just make sure you have the psu for it.

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Nik_I   03-21-2009 at 07:13:27 PM
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the memory the video card uses is completely unrelated to the system ram. you could be running a GDDR5 card on a board that uses DDR1, or heck even SDRAM provided the motherboard has the appropriate pci-express connector.

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