Does the memory the motherboard support refer to RAM and video card memory type?

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This motherboard's Memory Standard is DDR2 800 . http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136043 However all of the video cards, even the medium ones (like 80 - 100$) say they support GDDR3 such as this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127286 Does that mean this motherboard can't use it? I thought motherboard's memory type they use only apply to ram, am I still right on that?
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#2 Velocitas8
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Yeah, that was the wrong forum :P

I'll just copy+paste my reply:

Motherboard memory specifications only refer to system memory, not video memory.

No worries; as long as your motherboard can interface with the video card properly (via PCI-Express in this case), it'll work.Velocitas8

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Alright so sticks of DDR2 800 ram and a motherboard that only supports up to that, can handle this GDDR3 video card right?
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#4 Velocitas8
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Sorry..jumping between your two threads.

Alright so sticks of DDR2 800 ram and a motherboard that only supports up to that, can handle this GDDR3 video card right?__Sniper_28_

Correct; as long as you have a free PCI-Express x16 slot, it'll work.

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Okay thanks, I just really need a new computer to program in, this old one I'm on blows, and I need to bring a new good one to college too. Like I'm making this game right and since my JDK tools and all that are taking up all my ram, the game I load up to test doesn't have enough ram, so not everything loads, so I wasted like 2 days worth of time trying to fix this problem of stuff not loading, turns out, I just needed more ram, (found out by closing everything down and then running my game, what do you know, everything works perfectly