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?
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
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.
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.