Im actually planning to build my own rig and to prevent myself from getting confused about different RAM, GPU and the DDR, DDR2 DDR3 DDR4 DDR5 and gDDR5 gDDR4 gDDR3 and so on Im going to blog about it.

First the Ram…

DDR is not compatible to Mobo which has DDR2 and Mobo which uses DD3 and so on. It doesn’t matter if you have a DDR3 1333 and 1600 it would still fit so long as it is DDR3, the same applies to DDR2 and DDR1… the 1333 and 1600 are the Data Rate and that is just about it so in layman’s term:

A Motherboard supporting DDR3 would support any kind of DDR3 may it be 1333, 1600 and so forth.. that’s just about it. Other values are just indicators of how fast the RAM is..

Another reason why you cannot use a different DDR from another motherboard is because of its slots…

Same applies to Laptop SO-DIMM…

Hat Tip on buying RAM

• Consult Motherboard on what kind of RAM it supports (DDR, DDR2, DDR3)
• Then after that check the data rate (1333, 1600 and so on) the higher the number the faster and better
• Then of course the price, the higher the price well higher you pay of course…

The newer Video Graphics Card or Video Card or VGA or GPU also has this with the so called gDDRx (x =put a number there from 2 to 5)

Unlike before that GPU used to be on the AGP Slot which is universal, VideoCards nowadays have their own memory hence the need to label them with different gDDr(x) numbers.

But here is the rule of thumb. So long as you have a motherboard which has a PCIe x16 slot (take note x16) then you can be able to use any video card that is labeled as gDDR, gDDR2, gDDR3, gDDR4, gDDR5 without any problems at all, it would just all boil down on how many memory, bits and what budget you have to be able to select a videocard for your CPU.

Hat Tip on Buying Videocard

• Check your Mobo on what slot it has (PCIe x16, PCIe x4, PCIe x1 and so on) the PCIe x16 is the best specially when the slot is open ended
• Then check the memory of the Video Card (gddr, gddr2, gddr3, gddr4, gddr5 and so on) the higher the gddrX the better.
• Then check the price. The higher the price the better performance but bad for your budget LOLz..

So that is just about it… Learnt them all here:

DDR on Wikipedia

GDDR or Toms Hardware

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