Good question. I believe CUDA approaches with 8GB to 16GB or even 32GB of HBM memory will address those issues. Besides the speed of HBM the amount of VRAM they're planning to ship per GPU in Pascal then (I believe) Volta... looks like GPUs could have more RAM than CPUs.

I believe Nvidia is getting a massive amount of government, military, security-industrial and artificial intelligence contracts because they've cracked GPGPU implementations and so these customers that far outstrip the gaming industry - it looks like Nvidia can even go up against Intel now, and are doing so.

2015-2025 we're moving into a GPU+VRAM vs CPU+DRAM hybrid-competitive world.

Indeed if you look at photo stitching massive images a 8 x Titan "Y" Pascal with 16GB HBM VRAM each vs 64 Xeon Cores with 16GB DRAM each - certain types of computing appears to be very suited to GPU compute, and it appears that in many crucial large-data-set applications GPU compute is surpassing x86/64 CPU compute.

Hi, if I am not mistaken those background apps should not be taking a lot of memory. With 8GB of RAM you shouldn't be getting low-memory warnings.

I think if you set the swap (Virtual Memory) to 16GB on your primary (C:) drive you should ~not~ get those warnings any more.

This is because for example when you are running GTA V or Dying Light Windows will then allocate the "live" (hardware) RAM for the game then other processes/ apps/ etc. memory needs will go to the swap file on the hard disk (Virtual Memory).

This post has been edited by klmojuze: Jan 20 2016, 04:34 PM

I'm sorry for the late reply, please see: http://www.howtogeek.com/196238/how-big-sh...p-partition-be/ for a general discussion.

Uncheck "Automatically Manage" and instead set it to minimum 2000MB and maximum 8000MB. Let us know how you go. You can set the maximum to 16000MB but that might be unnecessary.



HBM2 memory will blow away GDDR5 VRAM (video memory) speeds:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/221473-...ion-hbm2-memory

This post has been edited by klmojuze: Jan 30 2016, 07:23 PM

Yeah Vulcan is a little way off but DX12 will help a lot. The issue is PC game versions are still "second class" to console releases. Unlike things like Star Citizen which is PC-first, that's where we will see the best stuff for PC.

I was having problems with Nvidia Optimus on Windows 10 but the latest Intel and Nvidia drivers are alright with Windows 10. Gaming and other stuff has been smooth. Photoshop was crashing recently but Nvidia released a driver fix. Haven't experienced any issues with individual software except for Daz 3D, VLC (some UI issues) and one or two other things.

This post has been edited by klmojuze: Jan 30 2016, 08:46 PM

Disclaimer: This is not a guide per se, please backup all your data and research carefully before reinstalling.

I suggest do use http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html to extract your OEM (BIOS) key and back that up carefully.

That said, as per above poster, as long as you use the correct .ISO it will recognise your OEM (BIOS) key on reinstall.

Go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench for legal Windows .ISO downloads. For our MSI's I believe it is "Windows 10 Home Single Language" with that language being "English International".

Rufus is quite cool to create bootable USB from .ISO: http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Good luck!

This post has been edited by klmojuze: May 19 2016, 10:31 PM