DirectX, Memory Type [Video Card]

2009-10-09 10:27:25

#1

Oisín<3: >rush.Irishpride; +139|5686|Dublin, Ireland

I'm a little confused when surfing for a new video card. I'm using Windows XP and directX 9.0c. My motherboard supports DDR2 memory. The majority of the more popular graphics cards seem to only support DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0. Does it XP support DirectX 10? Like, if I got a DirectX 10 card and put it in my machine would it accept DirectX 10? Same goes with the memory? Is the Video Card memory different than the RAM? Will my motherboard which supports DDR2 RAM accept DDR3 SDRAM and GDDR5?

Sorry if these are noob questions, it's just pissing me off...

2009-10-09 10:34:40

#2

IrishGrimReaper: Field Marshal | o |; +142|6981|Ireland | Monaghan

DX10 doesn't work in XP, the card will work it just won't be DX10.

And the RAM on the GPU is alot different from the mobo RAM. It has no relevance as to what mobo you have, a DDR5 GPU will work on a DDR2 mobo.

Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 4GHz || 3x2 GB OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 || 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 2 || KFA2 GTX 480 1536Mb ||| Samsung T220 || Xonar DX 7.1 || AV 40 || P6T Deluxe V2 || Win 7 HP 64 Bit || Lian Li P80

2009-10-09 10:37:00

#3

Oisín<3: >rush.Irishpride; +139|5686|Dublin, Ireland

IrishGrimReaper wrote:
DX10 doesn't work in XP, the card will work it just won't be DX10.

And the RAM on the GPU is alot different from the mobo RAM. It has no relevance as to what mobo you have, a DDR5 GPU will work on a DDR2 mobo.

So what you're saying is the card won't be as effective as it should be?

Will running it under DX9.0c make much of a difference compared to DX10?

2009-10-09 10:38:14

#4

IrishGrimReaper: Field Marshal | o |; +142|6981|Ireland | Monaghan

It will be effective, it just won't get the benefits of DX10 it will run in DX9. DX10 is in some games and just make it look better graphically.

Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 4GHz || 3x2 GB OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 || 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 2 || KFA2 GTX 480 1536Mb ||| Samsung T220 || Xonar DX 7.1 || AV 40 || P6T Deluxe V2 || Win 7 HP 64 Bit || Lian Li P80

2009-10-09 10:39:19

#5

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6996|Salt Lake City

Oisín<3 wrote:
IrishGrimReaper wrote:
DX10 doesn't work in XP, the card will work it just won't be DX10.

And the RAM on the GPU is alot different from the mobo RAM. It has no relevance as to what mobo you have, a DDR5 GPU will work on a DDR2 mobo.
So what you're saying is the card won't be as effective as it should be?

Will running it under DX9.0c make much of a difference compared to DX10?

Most of the games out there don't utilize DX10, and those that do are usually patched to support it and were originally designed with older DX versions.

Since DX is an API, your card will do just fine using DX9 variants, but like I said, most games aren't DX10 anyway.

2009-10-09 10:40:50

#6

IrishGrimReaper: Field Marshal | o |; +142|6981|Ireland | Monaghan

Roll on DX11 I say.

Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 4GHz || 3x2 GB OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 || 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 2 || KFA2 GTX 480 1536Mb ||| Samsung T220 || Xonar DX 7.1 || AV 40 || P6T Deluxe V2 || Win 7 HP 64 Bit || Lian Li P80

2009-10-09 10:41:53

#7

Oisín<3: >rush.Irishpride; +139|5686|Dublin, Ireland

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:
Oisín<3 wrote:
IrishGrimReaper wrote:
DX10 doesn't work in XP, the card will work it just won't be DX10.

And the RAM on the GPU is alot different from the mobo RAM. It has no relevance as to what mobo you have, a DDR5 GPU will work on a DDR2 mobo.
So what you're saying is the card won't be as effective as it should be?

Will running it under DX9.0c make much of a difference compared to DX10?
Most of the games out there don't utilize DX10, and those that do are usually patched to support it and were originally designed with older DX versions.

Since DX is an API, your card will do just fine using DX9 variants, but like I said, most games aren't DX10 anyway.

Kay, thanks for clearly this up.

2009-10-09 10:50:42

#8

Oisín<3: >rush.Irishpride; +139|5686|Dublin, Ireland

Another nub question...

Is there a difference between standard DVI and DVI-D?

As shown in the specs here - http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=431103

Komplett.ie wrote:
Signal Input HDMI, DVI-D, VGA

Last edited by Oisín<3 (2009-10-09 10:50:56)

2009-10-09 10:53:49

#9

GCFC: Davide Santon; +45|6189|NY/CT

what video card?

2009-10-09 11:17:36

#10

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6996|Salt Lake City

DVI is a port design standard. The -D defines the type of data the port will output. You actually have DVI-A ports which are an analog DVI port. The three main types are DVI-A, DVI-I, and DVI-D.

http://images.google.com/images?q=DVI-I … CCMQsAQwAw

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