You're right, it really has nothing to do with the topic at hand, I was pondering the implications of nvidia's software implementation of the soft "3.5GB" usage typically seen. I just find supremely it odd considering the multiple incidents I've seen about pagefile usage skyrocketing after 3.5GB...
Pardon me, I should have said "running out of virtual memory". Did you read his symptoms?
His game crashed very quickly after hitting 3.5 GB of vram.
Upon enabling his page file, he no longer crashed, but saw that his page file was being thrashed (constant HDD access). And typically, he said...
It does explain why skipsneeky2 was crashing without a page file. Crashes are exactly what you expect to happen when you run out of ram without having virtual memory. It doesn't make sense conventionally, but the symptoms are there.
Yeah, I know right? But I've seen multiple reports of people with GTX 970 complaining about their paging file going crazy just as they go past 3.5 GB of ram.
"Except when i buy a product i expect it to work as advertised."
Those were your words, not mine.
I expected to get a 4GB, 256bit bus, 224GB/s card like was advertised. It doesn't act like a 4GB, 256bit bus, 224GB/s card ought to.
I actually considered it. Why that might be relevant is lost to me though. I didn't buy a GTX 980. I was not thinking "I can save money vs the GTX 980". I was thinking "I can save money by not buying."
Is this post just a post to congratulate yourself on buying a GTX 980 rather than a GTX 970? I...
That's assuming I would have bought a card in the first place. The fact of the matter - I was debating whether or not to buy the card - not that I needed it, but I thought it was a good enough GTX 980 alternative for pretty cheap. My alternative? Just use my old card, and not buy a new card...
There's a quote from Nvidia yourself. 4-6% penalty under high memory use. And frankly, their analysis is worth more, since they most likely actually have access to a real 64 ROP/2mb L2 Cache GTX 970. All the rest of us can do is speculate wildly about the theoretical performance of a fully...
Not an issue of promise of performance. Misleading specs - using the same specs for a GTX 970 and a GTX 980, when there are material differences in memory speed.
Straight from the horse's mouth:
That's putting aside the fact that I would not have bought it if I had known. So my loss is the...
You missed my legal argument. It was not about 4GB vs 3.5GB + 0.5 GB of ram per se; as you say, that argument isn't going to fly in the courts.
It was that the memory specs are identical between the GTX 980 and GTX 970. Size, speed, bus width - all the same. How do you tell the difference? You...
GTX 980 specs: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980/specifications
GTX 970 specs: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-970/specifications
What's the difference in memory specifications here? Can you tell, from their own pages and specifications, that...
Multi input + overclock? Suspicious. Very, very few of the multi input monitors have been shown to overclock. And even those were limited to 85hz. It is far more likely that this one does not in fact overclock, and skips frames when a signal>60hz is fed to it.
As for the tempest - it works...
Blacks are blacker. In pictures and movie with dark content, it is easier to see detail in dark areas. When might and dark content are on screen at the same time, it will seem more vibrant. The TN screen will look washed out.
And this is particular to the tn screen used in the x220, it's just...
The IPS screen on the X220 has higher viewing angles, as well as much higher contrast (up to 3x better). I measured the contrast on my x220, and it was approximately 600:1, whereas the other non-IPS x220 had a contrast at around 250:1.
The IPS screen has a slightly small colour gamut - reds...
The battery itself is analogue, but the microcontroller that keeps track of voltages, that manages charging and discharging and overall keeps lithium ion-batteries happy is not, and it does drain your battery (very, very slowly). Normally it isn't a significant factor, but when your battery is...
There's a critical low battery level that if crossed, will convert your battery into a brick. Charging requires some level of regulation from the battery itself, and the battery itself must have a minimum charge in order for the internal electronics to stay active. Storing a battery at 0% is a...
For what it's worth, keep in mind that the mx100 has 3 times the idle power usage of the Samsung 840 evo, about 1 watt idle versus 0.3 watts idle. You may find that the Samsung has longer battery life on a laptop than the MX 100.
If he wants X/Y/Z, you need 4 sensor sources.
1. Gives you a distance (sphere) to the first source.
2. Gives you a circle to the two sources. (intersection of two spheres)
3. Gives you two points on that circle to the three sources.
4. Resolves the ambiguity of the two points.
Of course...
Untrue.
I don't know where you get your information, but it's wrong.
Yes, there are conditions. I summarized those conditions where you are liable - you lose your card, you lose your PIN and you don't tell the credit card company.
Liability doesn't fall on the consumer except in one case.
Consumers are liable if:
You lose your card
and
you tell someone the PIN
and
you don't tell the credit card company that the card is lost even though you can tell them.
You are not liable unless all three of the above are true. If all...
Stuff is 71% more detailed.
Size of objects do not change, but things are rendered at a finer detail. I haven't bother to compare quality of textures, but I don't see any problems when playing normally.
Considering SSD's are generally large enough, and are hardy enough to withstand TiB of writes anyways...
What's the benefit nowadays to disabling the pagefile?
The death of the Thinkpad keyboard is overblown.
It is still by far the best laptop keyboard I have the pleasure of using. Changes to the trackpoint are less desirable, but the feeling of the keyboard is still the best.
People who dislike the changes in layout have a point, but it's more of a...
Test for frameskipping is here:
http://www.testufo.com/#test=frameskipping
And it requires a photograph, not a screenshot.
In any case, it does overclock. There is no shadow of doubt in the community that the Overlord monitors do overclock properly without frameskips. They have been as...
This monitor is more than 1.5 years old now. The Asus gsync monitor isn't out, and is also twice the price. And is only a tn panel. So what if Asus does it that way? If you prefer that, buy it.
Display port doesn't work on this particular model. This is a dual link DVI monitor. You can...
The Overlord monitor is indeed an overclockable monitor. This is not one of those sketchy ones that are only advertised as overclockable, it definitely is overclockable. It does not drop frames, and it does full pass show all frames that is sent to it.
The proprietor was actually one of the...
Having that much overprovisioning is useless unless you regularly fill up 100% of your allocated drive space.
Free space on your SSD is as good as having unallocated space on your SSD. 300GB unused is pretty much the same thing as 300GB overprovisioned. So just don't fill it up 100% regularly.
The G3220 heatsink does not have a copper plug. I noticed that when I installed it into my NAS server.
The i3-4130 does have the plug. I noticed that when I installed it into a custom build.
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