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    6860fx upgrade question

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by stormgraphicdesigns, Sep 24, 2008.

  1. stormgraphicdesigns

    stormgraphicdesigns Notebook Geek

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    is it possible to get past the 4gb of ram marker? it would be nice if i could upgrade to 6 or 8gb of ram if possible.

    the problem im having is on average 1.14gb is being used as my laptop sits, so that gives me less than 3gb to play with. i was doing simple sculpting in blender earlier and before it crashed, the memory used jumped over 3.1gb just on blender, add that to the the 1.14 spoken for. before it locked up im guessing i was using over 4.2 (how ever that worked out).

    im already planning on upgrading to a t9300 when i get the money, just it would be nice to have that extra memory if possible.

    readyboost? will that help when i max out my memory and need more, or is that just another worthless microsoft creation?
     
    stormgraphicdesigns, Sep 24, 2008
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    royk50 times being what they are

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    ready boost is cr4p and 4gb is where it tops.check you swap file settings. no reason for crash, slowdown yes, not crashing.
     
    royk50, Sep 25, 2008
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    I wish we could get 8gb of RAM, but unfortunatly we're stuck with 4. Which really isnt that big of a problem. And should have never crashed your system...it would have just moved the info into the HDD and made the process REALLY slow (comparitively speaking)

    So if your computer crashed because blender i would look into some other problem besides RAM, unless you possibably have a bad module or something. But thats honestly pretty rare.
     
    Kamin_Majere, Sep 25, 2008
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    stormgraphicdesigns Notebook Geek

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    my system itself didnt crash, blender did and i lost everything. when blender did crash it froze up my system for a minute. ah well that stinks theres no upgrade, thanks for the responses.
     
    stormgraphicdesigns, Sep 25, 2008
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    how about gpu? is that upgradeable, im kinda excited about nividias CUDA, not sure if that can be run on the 8800 or if it will be run on its own seperate gpu line
     
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    Nope the GPU isnt upgradeable either. The CPU is though and that might help a little.

    CUDA should be able to run on the 8800GTS, but i guess you can always try it to find out.

    I cant believe there is any program that needs more than 4gb of ram. That is a pretty recent ceiling to have been reached in personal computers and most programs are behind the times with typical Hardware (exempting games of course)
     
    Kamin_Majere, Sep 25, 2008
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    thanks for the link, has anyone tried cuda yet? is it worth the download?
     
    stormgraphicdesigns, Sep 25, 2008
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