I'm planning to upgrade my PC. I need your comments on this one.?

Question

I bought 2 x 256MB SD RAMs for my pc. I have 2 available DIMM slots, so i guess it's ok. My current RAM is 256MB. I guess it'll be faster.

My current graphics cards is the Nvidia V7100 Pro 64MB card. It's doin fine but i'm really not contented with the performance i'm having.

So, i'm planning to purchase a graphic card with a 128MB memory. But it says on the specs that "128MB DDR+ memory". Will this work on my system? My motherboard is the ASUS P4S133 which is SDRAM compatible only. Am i facing a problem here?!

i need your comments ASAP! :) hehehe...

thanks...

Answer 1

In most cases, upgrading the video card makes the biggest impact on gaming. But in your situation, it's time to upgrade the motherboard, CPU and RAM. SDRAM was the standard back in 2000. DDR SDRAM became the standard late in 2001. There is a huge difference. A Pentium 4 or Celeron processor using SDRAM is crippled as a result.

The slowest Pentium 4's, for example, use a 400MHz frontside bus (FSB). The fastest SDRAM that most motherboards supported back in the day was 133MHz. Big difference as you can see. Intel only sold SDRAM motherboards for the P4 to lower the price. But it ended up being a big mistake killing the P4's potential. It's no surprise Intel finally ditched the expensive RDRAM and the slow-a-ss SDRAM, in favor of DDR.

If you insist on just getting the video card for now, then yes, that card you're looking at will work. The type of memory that the graphics card uses doesn't matter to the motherboard. The memory is managed by the GPU on the card itself. It's a self-contained system. The video card is like its own mini-computer with a processor and RAM.

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Chris W above is confusing PCI with PCI-Express. Your motherboard is too old for PCI-Express, so AGP is the only option you should be considering if you have that type of slot on the motherboard.

Answer 2

no there is no problem there. Because the seperate graphics card you are going to buy or already have is either going into the PCI, AGP, or the PCI express. When the motherboard says its only sdram compatible only, that means the actual ram, it does not concern with the memory that your memory card runs with.. because your motherboard does not use your video card's ram as part of its resource. So no worries there.

Answer 3

No Silly It wont effect it if its a Graphics Card That wont affect it the Slightest Bit :P
Just Get the right slot AGP Or PCI
PCI is the most common though and its on that motherboard

Answer 4

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