Monday, April 16, 2012

How do I Know If A MOBO's PCI-e x16 is compatible W/ a 256bit DDR3 video card?

Well I'm looking to purchase an MSI GTS 250 1gb 256 bit ddr3. But I don't think my motherboard (Intel dg31pr) support's 256bit and DDR3 but it has a pci-e x16 slot. My current video card is an Inno3d 9500gt 1gb 128bit DDR2. It's quite good when it comes to gaming but i still wanna upgrade.|||It will work flawlessly on the motherboard.

Graphics cards on PCIe are universal for any PCIe equiped motherboard.

Even the newest GPU (such as the ATI 5870) will just run with a slight bottleneck on the oldest mothebroards with a PCI express lane.



You should make sure you have all the proper power connectors for the graphics card beforehand however (as the card only uses 75 watts from the PCIe lane, and the rest of the power must be supplied by an addition 6 or 8 pin power connector).|||looking here

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboar…

may help you



the ram on the graphics card doesn't come into the problen|||If your motherboard supports a PCI-E 16x card that's all you need to know regarding compatibility. On the other hand, your mobo does NOT support DDR3 SDRAM. The memory type of a video card is irrelevant to compatibility issues

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