My desktop is a COMPAQ presario 6000T model with a pentiu 4 2.00GHz procesor. with 512mb PC-2100 DDR memory card . What can happen if the PCI video card memory type is a DDR2, and my RAM is a DDR? will this work? or it will work as long as the card is a PCI video card no mater if its DDR or DDR2? or its recommended that I only get a DDR?|||Your system memory and the memory on the video card are more or less separate and it won't matter whether one is DDR and the other is DDR2.
The video card is like a separate computer with its own processor, and needs its own memory to deal with all of the polygons and pixels. Once it processes this data, it passes it along the computer's bus to the Pentium processor. DDR2 is faster, so your video card will run faster if it has DDR2 as long as the manufacturer took advantage of it.
Your Compaq 6000T uses AGP video cards, not PCI, however.:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docum…
So you should be looking at AGP cards, not PCI.
One other thing - if you are planning on upgrading this old computer with a better video card, you should also increase the memory from 512Mb to at least 1Gb if not 2Gb. You will see an increase in overall speed if you do that, including with games. According to the manual, your 6000T can handle up to 3Gb.|||Some graphics adapters use main memory in order to do it's work. However, if you have PCI video card with it's own memory, it's completely separate.
In the situation you describe, your graphics card can have any kind of memory. It will have no affect on your main CPU memory.|||Sure you can use that, but that's an old computer, instead of upgrading it, maybe consider buying a new one.|||it will work the DDR2 thing that is listed on the video card is the memory type that it have so if you want a good video card just buy a NVIDIA product it's the best you RAM it would be good if you upgrade it to 1GB for more ask just email me...
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