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Video Cards, Memory

Dec 31, 2003 2:06AM PST

I am shopping for a new Video Card - specifically one with Transform and Lighting capability. The trouble is, the only ones I can find have DDR memory, and I have been told that my system is not equipped to handle DDR memory. I thought that the memory on the Video Card was different.

So my questions are.. does your video card really have to use the same kind of memory that you have installed as your main memory.
OR does anyone know of a Video Card with T&L that uses regular memory.

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Re:Video Cards, Memory
Dec 31, 2003 2:15AM PST

Mz,

You talk about your "system". What are you running? Whenever posting questions on these forums, please give us as much information about your computer as possible. The operating system, processor speed, amount of RAM installed, and anything else you think that might help us. Have you checked the specs on the various video cards you've researched and verified whether they will work correctly on various OS, or with different types of memory. Usually the card manufacturer will indicate this information. The more information you give us, the better informed our answer will be.

Hope this helps and let us know, please.

Grif

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Re:Re:Video Cards, Memory
Dec 31, 2003 2:59AM PST

I'm going to second what Bob said. Video cards are virtually a self-contained system. It doesn't matter what kind of RAM they have for the sake of it working in your system. Your system's RAM is it's own independant system from the video card unless we're talking about an integrated video chipset but that's a different subject.

Buy whatever card you like that has a T&L engine in it and don't worry about what kind of RAM it has.

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The Video Card, Memory is the video card's memory and not your computer's memory...
Dec 31, 2003 2:49AM PST

As such, something wasn't conveyed to you properly. It is well known and accepted that the video card may use ANY memory type it wants independent of what your CPU or motherboard supports.

This is simply because your video card's interface is the AGP slot...

I hope this is enough of an answer so you can pick out a card now.

Bob

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Re:The Video Card, Memory is the video card's memory and not your computer's memory...
Dec 31, 2003 6:13PM PST

Thank you Bob, that is exactly what I needed to know. I was pretty sure that the person who told me that was misinformed, but I figured the best place to check would be at a tech help forum.

Kelly