ridiculously easy question to answer

[tterris]

i think i've decided that instead of wasting my money on an overpriced pcie mobo and gfx card now (or when they become available) i will buy an agp mobo and gfx card, and then when pcie is reasonably priced sometime late next year i will switch over to pcie and probably sli.

but my question is.. when people refer to pcie and agp systems, the only two components they are referring to are the mobo and vid card, right? what i'm trying to get at is if the ram out now is compatible on both agp and pcie systems and if i'll be able to just transfer it over when i decide to upgrade nxt year.

 

[gururu]

pcie will be carried through to a number of different mobo configs including those using DDR2. For now, DDR1 will be fine on agp or pcie based boards. what I'm getting at is by the time you do your next upgrade, you may want a high end pcie board based on DDR2 or some other standard.

 

[Robor]

My friend picked up one of those Dell Dimension deals a while back. It's got a low end PCI-E video card and (I believe) has DDR2 RAM in it. I'm not sure if all PCI-E systems will use DDR2 though.

 

[edelbrock]

Some of the Intel 915 based boards use DDR instead of DDR2. The new nforce4 for AMD will support DDR. I imagine that if you are going with AMD you will be ok with DDR when you upgrade. They probably will not use DDR2 for quite a while. Not sure how long Intel will stick with DDR though. The 915 DDR capability just seems like an upgrade path for now.