Graphics Slow, or not function?

[Spectre]

Will a DDR2 or DDR3 graphics card (AGP 8x) slow down or just not work when combined with a DDR1(400Mhz) FSB Motherboard

[daleroy]

if the mother bords fsb is 133mhz then all components will run at 133mhz unless the components are slower

[RogerWilco]

Total nonsense - the graphics card has its own processor and clock and runs completely independently. Until recently, all decent graphics cards had much faster memory than motherboards

[daleroy]

you can do the test your self by taking a 66mhz motherbord with a pci or agp slot and your gpu vedio card to see the fps of a benchmark
then take your gpu vedio card and try it in a mother bord with 266mhz fsb.
you should clearly see rhe difference of fps

[RavenD]

rogerwilco is wrong, all hardware plugged into a mobo will run at whatever speed your FSB is. So if your FSB is 266mhz then if you have a 400mhz Graphics Card your card will run at 266Mhz, the same principal applies to memory, if your FSB is 800Mhz and you memory is 400Mhz then everything runs at 400Mhz. The FSB dictates the speed of all hardware. So the higher the FSB the faster hardware you can install.

[rojash]

Wrong, wrong wrong RavenD! The graphics processor has its own clock and this will dictate the speed it runs at. You are talking about the speed at which it can communicate with the rest of the system. But what it receives from the system is instructions and data, which it will then proceed to process at its own speed.

[RavenD]

rojash, I know a graphics card has it's own clock etc etc but ti can only run at it's maximum speed, if a mobo fsb is 333 it can't run at 400 can it ? it will run at 333 untill the fsb and cpu can run at the same speed as graphics card.