Possible Stupid Upgrade Question

I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to PCI
cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared video memory to
a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb memory. My question is, is
there any sort of compatibility issue with a computer that is using SDRAM
and a graphic card that uses DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to invest
any money into an upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.

michaeldonnelly wrote:
I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to
PCI cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared
video memory to a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb
memory. My question is, is there any sort of compatibility issue with
a computer that is using SDRAM and a graphic card that uses DDR?
Aren't they separate? Don't want to invest any money into an upgrade
card that won't work in my old clunker.

There are no problems doing so - the RAM on the motherboard and gfx card are
independent.

Dan

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:05:29 GMT in
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, "michaeldonnelly"
wrote:

I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to PCI
cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared video memory to
a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb memory. My question is, is
there any sort of compatibility issue with a computer that is using SDRAM
and a graphic card that uses DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to invest
any money into an upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.


Get Nick to buy you a video card on EBay :-)

(Serious answer withheld due to someone already answering the
question).

michaeldonnelly wrote:
I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to PCI
cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared video memory to
a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb memory. My question is, is
there any sort of compatibility issue with a computer that is using SDRAM
and a graphic card that uses DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to invest
any money into an upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.



Apples and Oranges... You should be fine, indeed they are seperate.

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Sith Lord wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:05:29 GMT in
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, "michaeldonnelly"
wrote:

I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to
PCI cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared
video memory to a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb
memory. My question is, is there any sort of compatibility issue
with a computer that is using SDRAM and a graphic card that uses
DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to invest any money into an
upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.


Get Nick to buy you a video card on EBay :-)


Damn - someone got to it before me. I was going to say that after the
discussion with Nick, I no longer believe that ANY question on this
newsgroup could be treated as a "stupid" question...

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:05:29 GMT, "michaeldonnelly"
wrote:

I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to PCI
cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared video memory to
a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb memory. My question is, is
there any sort of compatibility issue with a computer that is using SDRAM
and a graphic card that uses DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to invest
any money into an upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.


Your question is not stupid... and it has been answered.

If you want to see something stupid, read the posts with the Subject:
Mis-representation ?

Now that is STUPID

PS: Don't expect great gaming performance with such a setup. But a
PCI card will easily be better than Intel's on board junk, better
quality output too.


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Thank you for the answer....and by the way, who is this Nick that everyone
loves?

"Darthy" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:05:29 GMT, "michaeldonnelly"
wrote:

I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to PCI
cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared video memory
to
a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb memory. My question is,
is
there any sort of compatibility issue with a computer that is using SDRAM
and a graphic card that uses DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to
invest
any money into an upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.


Your question is not stupid... and it has been answered.

If you want to see something stupid, read the posts with the Subject:
Mis-representation ?

Now that is STUPID

PS: Don't expect great gaming performance with such a setup. But a
PCI card will easily be better than Intel's on board junk, better
quality output too.


--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

Nevermind, caught the thread with Nick. *Holy ****!* Long thread.

"Darthy" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:05:29 GMT, "michaeldonnelly"
wrote:

I have an 4 year old Compaq that has no AGP port so I am limited to PCI
cards. I recently upgraded from the onboard Intel 4mb shared video memory
to
a Pine PCI card with a SiS 305 chipset and 32mb memory. My question is,
is
there any sort of compatibility issue with a computer that is using SDRAM
and a graphic card that uses DDR? Aren't they separate? Don't want to
invest
any money into an upgrade card that won't work in my old clunker.


Your question is not stupid... and it has been answered.

If you want to see something stupid, read the posts with the Subject:
Mis-representation ?

Now that is STUPID

PS: Don't expect great gaming performance with such a setup. But a
PCI card will easily be better than Intel's on board junk, better
quality output too.


--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!