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Will a DDR3 work as it should work on a DDR2 motherboard?

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Hello everybody:

I have a DDR2 motherboard, and I want to buy a new graphic card.
My first question is if a DDR3 graphic card will work with all of his features(speed, frequency and so on) on a DDR2 motherboard.
My second question is: is the DDR3 that good that I should invest 50-70 dollars more?

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ok well ram and graphics cards have different interfaces,

 

the current graphics card interface is pci-e 16x so you should be able to fit any pci-e graphics card into your machine given sufficient power supply, so whether the card itself has ddr5 chips on it or whatever doesnt matter.

 

ddr2 is a ram standard, and ddr3 is the latest version, you can not put ddr3 into a ddr2 slot, it just wont fit.

 

if you arent sure whether your new upgrade will work, please give us more details on your motherboard make and model, your power supply make and model and the upgrade you want to make, and someone here will let you know if its compatible.


Message edited by montyuk on 04-18-2009 at 12:07:13 PM
Reply to montyuk

Just to clear up the difference in ddr youv got so muddled in your head

 

DDR2 is your supported ram...system ram...GPU ram can run at any speed...and the new card will work fine even if its running ddr5...

 

Now you need to find out if your mobo supports this or that and if your psu has enough kick....


Message edited by rewindlabs on 04-18-2009 at 12:10:18 PM
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Reply to rewindlabs

DDR < DDR2 < DDR3 < DDR4 < DDR5

Reply to bpogdowz

you mean GDDR3, GDDR is completely different to DDR.

Reply to Helloworld_98

G is just there to indicate it's for a graphics card

Reply to bpogdowz

Helloworld_98 wrote :

you mean GDDR3, GDDR is completely different to DDR.


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Reply to rewindlabs

bpogdowz wrote :

G is just there to indicate it's for a graphics card


actually that is wrong, GDDR architecture's are completely different to DDR architecture's.

Reply to Helloworld_98
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Hi, I am also in this situation, and i cant figure if my MOBO can take GDDR3. My PS can quite fine, but my MOBO doesnt indicate whether it can or not. I have an XFX 750i SLI Socket 775 socket. It has x2 PCLe x16 slots2.0 slots. Thanks for your help.

Reply to Nero11

This thread explains pretty plainly: Graphics memory speed is not bounded in any way by your motherboard. If you had the right interface, you could put a GDDR5 equipped GPU on a motherboard that only supports PC100 RAM.

Reply to frozenlead

Your mobo runs DDR2 RAM, only graphic cards use GDDR RAM.

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Reply to mousemonkey

As it was already stated graphics cards don't matter. Any motherboard can support any graphics card ram (GDDR) doesn't matter what the motherboard is.

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