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Android emulator performance is extremely unstable
First of all, hopefully this is the right place to post this type of question - if it isn't, do let me know.
I have a relatively new PC with 16 GB RAM, 10th Gen Core i3, 4 physical and 4 virtual cores ...
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Is 3600MHZ RAM enough or 3200MHZ?
I'm adding 16 GB of RAM for my Windows 11 Desktop . Motherboard is Asus B550M-A
CPU is AMD Ryzen5950.
Per google Ryzen5950 has a base clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a max boost clock speed of 4.9 GHz.
I'm ...
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Are there disadvantages to big memory in upgrades?
I have a Lenovo T430 computer. The physical memory is 4GB DDR3 1600MHz. I work on big data analysis an often the memory is not sufficient. So, I want to upgrade my physical memory.
I hesitate to ...
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Hardware component at fault of BSOD, need help in identifying it
Hey to whoever is reading!
I am facing issues with my PC, it goes BSOD with an "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" from time to times.
This happens out of the blue, while idle or playing games, or ...
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Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero - Memory from QVL - D.O.C.P. Standard - The system has POSTed in safe mode
I have just built my new computer with Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU and Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Black DDR4 3600MHz 4x16GB - CMT64GX4M4Z3600C16 (Ver4.31) ...
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is it possible to access more RAM beyond CPU limit of 64GB considering the motherboard limit is 128GB?
I got a CPU that can access up to 64GB.
The motherboard accepts up to 128GB.
I got 2x 16GB on slots 1 and 3 (same channel).
Now, I want to buy 1x 32GB, it will add up to 64GB and the CPU can access it....
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Why does my CPU only support 32GB RAM when it has 39 address bits?
The following is the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo
user@localhost:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-...
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is there a way to know if a CPU process is thrashing?
I see the following line:
PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20 0 52.2g 39.9g 388 S 1554 63.5 1663:21 MATLAB
on top, for a CPU process I am runinng on a ...
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Max CPU Memory MT/s VS MHz
I was looking at the Intel i9 12900k specifications stating that the memory types supported are DDR5 4800 MT/s and DDR4 at 3200 MT/s.
What is that translated to MHz?
And will a CPU with max memory ...
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800 MHz DDR2 RAM shows half of memory speed on my machine
I have an Acer Veriton l670 mini PM. My machine has:
E8400 3 GHz dual core CPU
2x2, 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM dual channel (Kingston acr256x64d2s800c6)
320 GB hard disk 7200 rpm
While this is not a very ...
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Nexpose consumes 16GB RAM and is slow with 3.3GHz quad core
Nexpose vulnerability scanner was using too much RAM to run locally on my laptop, so I got it a high performance VPS that well exceeds its requirements. The Debian 10 server has 18GB RAM, 3.3GHz CPU ...
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Troubleshooting CPU, PSU, MOBO, HW [duplicate]
Have a well aged PC that has started acting up. In short terms:
It has worked fine for about 13 years.
BIOS, Windows 10
Started out with trouble booting.
When pressing the ON button it sometimes ...
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Will i3 9100F support my ECC unbuffered RAM?
I read from the intel website that i3 9100f supports ECC ram, and when I am buying the ECC RAM, the guy said that the i3 9100F won't run with unbuffered RAM.
Can anyone confirm this?
My motherboard is ...
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Issue with running two virtual machines using virtualbox
I’ve been trying to run two virtual machines (A linux VM and A Windows VM) using virtual box however whatever second machine I try to run it won’t run. It freezes. I understand that it depends on my ...
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PC turns on for a split second then turns off
My PC recently stopped working. I turned it on one day and heard a pop then it turned off and when I tried to turn it on it wouldn’t.
I assumed it was the PSU so I changed it but then after trying to ...
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Issue with pc giving DRAM/CPU debug lights
I am having an issue with my pc where it wont post and I get CPU and DRAM debug lights. My motherboard is an MSI B450-A PRO MAX.
I have updated the BIOS to the latest version, before doing this update ...
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What determines the "speed" of current-tech motherboards? [2021]
Back a decade or so, I built my PC while in Uni and the basic limiting factor for a motherboard's internal communication was the Front Side Bus speed. Too low a frequency (i.e. data transfer rate) in ...
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How does the CPU write infomation to ram?
My question is, how does the CPU write data to ram?
From what I understand, modern CPU's use different levels of cache to speed up ram access. The RAM gets a command for information and then sends a ...
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CPU Limiting & kswapd0 Advice Saught
Through hours of testing, I have found that the nextcloud desktop sync client for ubuntu 20.04 (appimage or ppa) both seem to have a bug to where... if a common nextcloud file sync error occurs , ...
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Newly built PC won't boot 1st time
I've recently built a budget PC for my cousin and the parts are as follows:
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
MB: Asus Prime B350-Plus
CPU cooler: Cooler Master 212 Evo
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2666 MHz (2× 4 GB)
GPU: ...
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Does Windows Subsystem for Linux consume resources (CPU/memory/HD) when I don't use it?
I need Linux tools to simplify my life as a developer, and to connect effortlessly to remote Linux servers. I would like to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (with Ubuntu distro) but my laptop ...
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Is safe ignore the 'invalid settings detected' message in VirtualBox for RAM and CPU count?
In VirtualBox 6.1.30 — and other versions as well — when the settings exceed the maximum recommended values for the amount of RAM and/or the amount of CPUs the following message appears:
“Invalid ...
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Utilizing computer memory to maximum
I am bit new to this computing world. I have a Python program running on visual Studio Code that uses high CPU memory but not GPU as shown in the figure.
However, my memory usage is very low as you ...
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Rog Zenith ii Extreme won't turn on
I'm building a deep learning system for my company and my current build is:
Rog Zenith ii Extreme
2 * Aorus RTX 3090
256 GB Kingston Fury 2666MHz
EVGA Supernova 1600W
AMD 3960 threadripper
Along ...
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Using 2 RAM sticks of different brand and run in dual channel
I have a 2018 HP pre-built PC that has 2 RAM slots, both used. 1 slot has a 8GB or brand SK Hynix thats DDR4-2667, with CAS of 19-19-19-43 according to Cpu-Z.
The second stick is 4 GB of brand Micron, ...
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Computer over current detected
Hello so I’ve had my pc for 5 years no problem. The build is as follows: mobo is ASUS H81M-PLUS, CPU is intel 4790k, GPU is Zotac 960 4gb AMP!, ram is 16gb(8x2)of Corsair xms3 DDR3 and PSU is EVGA 650 ...
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What happens when you install an OS that doesn't meet the minimum requirements of a computer?
I have a very old laptop. It has 256 MB RAM. I am trying to install an operating system which requires 512 MB of RAM. This is the only minimum requirement that my system does not have (But other ...
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Windows 8: window is black or white after maximizing
Window of any program is black or white after maximizing it and the computer is very slow until the actuall view of program is drawn (it takes at least 5 seconds).
This occurs after working for a long ...
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How to distinguish among CPU, Motherboard and RAM failure
I am getting RAM errors like the following when running both XMP (3200MHz) and non-XMP (2666MHz) profiles:
Block Sequential : testing 56FAILURE: 0xffffffffffffffff != 0xffffffdfffffffff at offset ...
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High memory usage Windows 11
Yesterday night I opened my laptop and found that the fan was too noisy and my PC was overheated on just the startup! (80C). I still don't know the reason why. Now in the morning, I'm testing out ...
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