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Video card memory question

by gbwanabe Dec 28, 2004 11:00AM PST

I have an older 600mhz Athlon Compaq
It has a Voodoo 3 2000 with 16mb, I beleive it is a 4x or better AGP.
I want to upgrade to a little more recent card, but am not sure if the newer cards with DDR will work with my sdram system. It is an AGP based system and I may be causing some laughter througout the world by asking about the memory, but I am an older noob, and need some direction.

Any help out there?

Rob

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The video card memory doesn't have to match...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 28, 2004 11:33AM PST

The host's type of memory...

I have the Voodoo 3500TV in a box (gotta ebay it!) and any FX5200 will zoom past it on any given CPU.

Bob

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any 4x card should work

by twillie05 Dec 28, 2004 3:44PM PST

if you have an AGP slot or even a pci slot. the memory on the Video card dose not matter. i have a system that uses sdram but has a Gforce 4mx that has DDR memory used on it. in other words your system ram has nothing to do with whatson your video card. the video card has its own.

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Thanks to both of you who responded.

by gbwanabe Dec 30, 2004 5:56AM PST

I really appreciate it. Now I can shop.....

Rob

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