Will a DDR3 video card work in a PC that currently uses a DDR2 video card?

I'm wondering if a GeForce 9600 DDR3 video card will work in a Gateway GM5478 PC.



Its current video card is a GeForce 8500 GT which is DDR2, and I don't know if there's enough difference between DDR2 and DDR3 that it wouldn't work.



Links:

Video Card

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8983843&type=product&id=1218004429391



PC info

http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1009570/1009570nv.shtml|||The only thing your computer is worried about is whether the card utelises the correct slot, in your case it needs a PCI-e slot. The memory on the graphics card is controlled solely by the card's GPU and is of no concern to the computer other than t know how much is there!



In short it will work fine!|||A 9600GT would be a good choice for that computer. It would give you roughly 400% faster frame rates in games, compared to an 8500GT.



Your computer has a reasonably decent 400W power supply, so it should support a 9600GT pretty comfortably. (The recommendation for a 9600GT is a power supply with at least 22A on the +12V rails. Your power supply could probably also run a GeForce 9800GT or Radeon 4830, but the 9600GT is a safer choice, and only a little slower than those other two.)|||the graphics card stands alone and works with whatever memory it is equipped with, it has nothing to do with your previous card|||yes