Sunday, May 6, 2012

Do the RAM, video card, and CPU have to compatible with each other for an upgrade?

Or is the mobo the only component that has to be compatible to each of the above?|||No, the compatibility between the ram, video card, and cpu is... non-existant because it doesn't matter. The compatability comes in the components connection to the mobo. You know is the motherboards ram slot ddr2 or 3, does it support pcie x16 2.0, what cpu socket is there? These are the things we need to know. What your mobo model is and what you wanna put on it. As i always do i will backup my answer with outside help if you email me at garrettlomm@yahoo.com i can help u further including ensuring your components are compatible and telling u what ones are.|||They all have to be compatible with the motherboard, not each other since they don't connect directly together.



Obviously as Ricky says it's a good idea for them to be reasonably balanced if you want to get the best from all of the parts. For example, a laptop with Intel shared memory graphics will perform very badly at 3D so you don't benefit from having a good processor. Another example would be if you take the Radeon HD4670AGP, which is the best AGP card available and stick it in a computer with a 90MHz Pentium 1 instead of something like a Pentium D it will be wasted, since a Pentium 1 could never supply it with a fraction of the data that it can use.|||Definitely.. to prevent bottlenecking



large RAM, good video card but slow Processor is not good

low RAM, great video card and slow processor is not good

low ram, low video card but fast processor is not good :)|||probably

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