780i ddr2 Evga mobo compatible with ddr3 gpu?

Jizzhonson said:

Ok so im panicing cuz i watched this video on youtube which says that you cant put a ddr3 module in a ddr2 mobo.

i bought a 780i mobo which is ddr2 and my video card is a 9800gtx+ which is ddr3.... am i screwed or.... caan i use it and just get ddr2 performance from my video card?

also was this a bad idea? damnit i shoulda did more research before buying my mobo. Will i have trouble down the line?

thanks-
j

p.s. i did buy ddr2 ram sticks..... if thats any constellation...

All graphics card RAM works individually from the rest of the system, it does not matter what the card has on it. For example you can run a 4870X2 (GDDR5) on A DDR2 or DDR3 motherboard. You will however like you have already done have to buy DDR2 for system RAM. As long as you have the PCI-E for it to work it should have no problems. As graphics cards need to perform better and better they need faster performance memory and that is all the different GPU memory is.

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Jizzhonson said:

Ok so im panicing cuz i watched this video on youtube which says that you cant put a ddr3 module in a ddr2 mobo.

i bought a 780i mobo which is ddr2 and my video card is a 9800gtx+ which is ddr3.... am i screwed or.... caan i use it and just get ddr2 performance from my video card?

also was this a bad idea? damnit i shoulda did more research before buying my mobo. Will i have trouble down the line?

thanks-
j

p.s. i did buy ddr2 ram sticks..... if thats any constellation...

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Amtrak said:

GDDR is different from DDR. DDR would be the system memory, while GDDR is graphics card memory. The YouTube comment was correct; a DDR2 motherboard is not compatible with DDR3 ram and vice versa. However, all you need to worry about with graphics cards is that you have the correct interface (i.e. PCI-E). The graphics memory is of no importance.

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