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How to change the size of shared system memory In Windows 10?
I recently upgraded my laptop ram from 4gb ddr3 to 16gb ddr3.but my system shared memory is not increased so that i cannot increase my dedicated video ram more than 576mb.anyone help me to solve this ...
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CPU and GPU bottlenecking
I am using a hydro-morphdynamic simulation software (BASEMENT) to run river-engineering simulations. Since version 3, BASEMENT is programmed to run on GPU + multi-threaded on CPU (using OpenMP).
I run ...
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Understanding Mac OS MPS Warning
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Hardware: Mac M1 Mini
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ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 13.5
BuildVersion: 22G74
Task at hand: Running a piece of Python Code (a Machine Learning Model)....
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How does interrupt controller deals with PCI, QPI and other buses?
We know that communication between CPU and Notrh Bridge things happens through the PCIe or memory bus. Communication between CPU and South Bridge devices is made through the interconnect interface (...
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Can reverting/resetting BIOS Settings completely erase all your xmp/memory frequency changes right?
I was just wondering if a simple "Reset To Optimized Default" can be really impactful or effective to reverting all the changes you did.
Like for example, you turned on XMP, but then you ...
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Are these reportings/stats typically normal for a CPU?
I was checking my cpu temperatures by using HWiNFO and checking if everything is normal. But i came to notice that the minimum of the Core Clock Speed are "798-797.7 mhz or 0.78-0.79 ghz" ...
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What is SMP and what role does it have while booting a computer?
The boot process has an error at:
Freeing SMP alternative memory
and then hangs while boooting a notebook with Intel Celeron dual core and Linux.
What is SMP and what role does it have while ...
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Why does CPU usage increase fourfold after upgrading PHP on Ubuntu
We have a portal that attracts high traffic. Since ubuntu's 18 has come to the end of its life, we have upgraded the servers running php 7.4 on ubuntu 18. The average load of servers running Ubuntu 18 ...
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my desktop is 16 hours continuously running Would it be ok to do this? [closed]
My work is done from home. For which I have to keep my desktop running for 16 hours. Will there be any problem with my desktop by doing this? I just got a new system
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How does direct memory access improve performance
A wikipedia article about DMA says that the cpu has to be put in a hold state to prevent bus contention since peripherals and cpu share the memory bus, but if the main way dma mechanism improves ...
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Lowering DDR3 speed back to 1333 after enabling XMP
I have following setup:
GA-P55-UD3 Motherboard
CPU i5-750 2.67Ghz
I recently bought 8GB of Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz CL9 RAM but my system showed it as running at 1333Mhz so following some internet ...
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Combining Minimum Requirements_CPU and Memory
I'm in the process of figuring out how to build a VM to use the minimum necessary resources to run what I need it to run and I'm trying to understand how to combine system requirements.
It seems to me ...
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Can a CPU support more ram, than specified by intel?
I have seen multiple minipc systems online with the i7-8550U CPU, in which the system can be purchased with ram that goes up to 64 GB. On the intel-ark page and wikichip, the CPU is specified with a ...
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Server randomly shutsdown and blows fan at full speed with no video output
Specs
Model: HP Z230
CPU: Intel Xeon e3 1230 v3
RAM: 1x8GB DDR3 Non-ECC RAM
GPU: Radeon HD 8570
NIC: Intel 82571 Dual Port NIC
Storage: 1x128GB SATA SSD, 1X1TB 7.2k RPM HDD
The problem
It randomly ...
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Dell G3 15 laptop display and audio static
I have a 2020 model Dell G3 15 gaming laptop. Yesterday, during a Signal call, the laptop display suddenly distorted, and a loud static came from the audio output. I held down the power button to ...
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Server slow/freezing, wastes hard drives; tests fine: hardware issue?
I have a personal server I run, and I'm upgrading to new hardware (an entirely new machine). I'm experiencing a number of bizarre happenings that feel like they could only be related to a hardware ...
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MemTest86+ shows errors while MemTest86 doesn't?
I bought a new PC that has been crashing in exactly 1 game (fortnite) so I decided to do memory tests. I ran prime95 and memtest64 and there were no errors at all. I ran 3/3 passes of memtest86 and it ...
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Custom desktop reboots every 4 seconds
Any help would be so appreciated. My son and I recently put together a desktop from parts. Was working amazing for 3 weeks, then suddenly froze for the very first time. Did a hard shutdown, but when ...
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Computer feels laggy running Linux but okay with Windows 10 don't know why?
Processor: AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 3.90 GHz
Installed RAM: 8.00 GB (7.20 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch: No pen or touch ...
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How many memory addresses can we get with a 32-bit processor and 1gb ram?
How many memory addresses can we get with a 32-bit processor and 1gb ram and how many with a 64-bit processor?
I think that it's something like this:
1GB of ram divided by 32bits or divided by 4? to ...
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How do I know if my RAM slot or CPU socket is gone bad
So I recently had some issues with my system booting.
At first, It would end up in a boot loops. No beeps, nothing, just fans start spinning for a second, then go off for a second only to start ...
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5 Beep Code on Gigabye B660M DS3H
I am trying to build a pc and it will not POST.
I am getting 5 short beep codes which for AMI should be a CPU failure.
The hardware is as follows:
Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4
Intel i3-12100f
Corsair ...
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Use of logical address [closed]
Why do CPUs need a virtual address(logical address) to access data from a physical address.
Suppose we have this command:
mov dl,1
Why does the operand of this command use the virtual address of the ...
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What sort of cluster should I build to render extremely large and complex 3D art?
I am a 3D artist and I work with very, very large scenes, around 100GB per scene is normal. My workstation doesn't have enough memory to render these scenes itself, and I am unfamiliar with what sort ...
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Mixing different RAM MHz and CAS latency
Is it possible to mix different rams with different CAS latency and different MHz?
Such as mixing 16 GB cl 17 2933 MHz DDR4 and 16 GB cl 20 3200 MHz DDR4 for the laptop for the which CPU supports max ...
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How to switch between Docker related development and non-Docker related development?
This is a copy of my original question.
On my PC, I have a process "vmmem", eating up to 1.6Gb of RAM, and regularly using my entire CPU usage. After some investigation, based on several ...
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Why is SRAM faster than DRAM?
In modern multi-core processors, the processor caches (L1,L2 and L3) are made up of SRAM with decreasing speeds(L2 caches are higher speed SRAM than L3 caches which is a cost trade-off). The main ...
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CPU and its operations
The 3 operations performed by a CPU are:
Transfer of data between memory and I/O
Logical and Arithmetical functions
Program flow through simple decisions
I dont understand what the 3rd operation is ...
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TR 2990X & AsRock X399 TAICHI, RAM not recognized properly
I have the following system configuration:
CPU: AMD Threadripper 2990WX
RAM: 4x8GB + 4x16GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR4-3200 (running at 2933)
Mainboard: Asrock x399 Taichi
SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB
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Dell Precision 3630 tower 16 x 2 + 32 x 2 GB RAM Configuration is allowed? [duplicate]
I have a Dell Precision 3630 tower with an Intel i7 8700 processor (Intel C246 chipset). The PC also has NVIDIA P1000 4 GB GPU.
Among the four DIMM slots, two are populated with 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz ...
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