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Using video card (DDE) on mobo with SDRAM ???

by es123123 Jun 1, 2005 7:29AM PDT

Is it possible to use video card (AGP 4x) with ddr memory technology on the motherboard, which has sdram memory ???
Thanks a lot for information.

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(NT) (NT) Yes, always, yup and more.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 1, 2005 7:42AM PDT

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will it not confuse the cpu ? ... DDR card and non-DDR mobo

by es123123 Jun 1, 2005 7:55AM PDT

Thanks for your help, it sounds encouraging.

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(NT) (NT) No, nope, never, ever.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 1, 2005 8:01AM PDT

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it's been done for years

by ozos Jun 1, 2005 9:16AM PDT

since about 1999-2000
is when nVidia and ATi started using DDR
3dfx was just about ready to make the jump, and then...they folded

but the memory on the graphics card doesn't affect the system memory
as the CPU/chipset isn't controlling the gfx RAM, the gfx card is

GeForce FX 5800 and XGI Volari V8 Duo cards use DDR-II and work in SDRAM, RDRAM, and DDR systems
and all the newer cards use DDR-3 and it works in SDRAM, RDRAM, DDR and DDR2 systems

but most graphics cards still use DDR and it works fine with SDRAM, RDRAM, DDR and DDR2 equipped systems

and I can even vouch for it working, I had a Pentium 4 which used SDRAM in the system, and DDR on both an FX 5200 and GeForce4 MX
zero issues (now the system was slower than a dog due to the SDRAM (SDRAM is horrible for a Pentium4, it provides it hardly enough memory bandwidth, but the GPU in no way affects this))

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