Thursday, April 26, 2012

I'm looking at buying a computer with a DDR2 motherboard(GIGABYTE GA-G31M) can i still use a DDR3 video card?

It's a GTX 275|||1) that card is PCI express x16 2.0. its the only variety of it they make.



2) your motherboard is PCI express x16, so it will bottleneck the card slightly. if you are building this yourself, get a motherboard with a 2.0 slot to take full advantage of the card and to future proof it more.



3) the DDR3 ram is on the video card and therefore transfers data through the PCI express slot, as opposed to computer ram which is on the motherboard. the motherboards ram slots are limited to DDR2.



long story short. the video card ram does not need to match the motherboard ram.|||I think you need to find out if the video card is pci or pci express|||Yes you can, Video cards use separate memory. So you will not have any problems using DDR3 card with DDR2 Motherboard. Just make sure the motherboard has the slot for it. It might be PCI-Express.|||lol, you can use a DDR 5 card!!



The DDR rating of the board doesn't correlate with the VGA graphics memory speeds.



DDR 2 is for system RAM only.



Haydn, GTX 275 is brand new, of coarse it's express.|||hello there alfred, i believe i can help you out.



i once had a DCG7789GH processor and upgraded my RAM to 5mb.

it was only upon doing this i realized that i wanted to have a screensaver of a cat playing with a ball of string. i searched the internet and all i could find was a man holding a picture of the mona lisa wilts trying to put on his shoe. this beckons the question , does the sky have to be so blue, and if not why do the people whom think the world was flat imprison gravy and peas in the local library.|||I looked at the specifications of your motherboard, YES it can.



Although a DDR2 motherboard refers to the DDR2 RAM, not video memory.|||Yes I think you mean to say DDR2 RAM memory not motherboard you can mix DDR2 ram memory with DDR3 or DDR5 video cards|||Just a small point, but graphics cards use GDDRx memory and motherboards use DDRx. The two are very different and it would avoid a lot of confusion if manufacturers and retailers labeled things properly.|||No problem at all with compatibility, with using that graphics card with that Motherboard.

As for the memory, no problems at all.

The graphics card is basically like its own self contained unit, so the memory can be different from that of the RAM's.

Please just ensure you have a large enough power supply, That graphics card requires a lot of power.

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