I have an older computer (a Core 2 Duo E6300 to be exact) and I'm thinking of getting one of the new Geforce 9800 video cards but it says that it uses DDR3 SDRAM. I don't really know what that means, but I know that my computer uses DDR2 ram. Are they compatible?|||The memory on the video card is separate from rest of the system, so whatever type it is will not be an issue.
The card's internal workings do not affect the rest of the computer since it's wholly contained within the architecture of the card. The interface is what makes it compatible, even if the internals of the card are vastly different from the motherboard. You could have a GPU using quantum computing, and as long as the interface was PCI-e and the card works with an API like DirectX or OpenGL/CL, it will work.
It's like getting electricity from a socket...doesn't matter if the electricity was produced via gas burning or coal burning or solar energy, the result is still the same. It's a standard plug (PCI-e being the plug) and it will draw electricity no matter how it was made.|||It will work.
The DDR type in the graphic cards and the DDR type in the motherboards work completely separatly from each other, and therefor doesn't matter what DDR type that each other has.
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