Published on: 2025-06-17 12:21:00
In a nutshell: A modder recently upgraded an 11-year-old Nvidia GTX 970 from 4GB to 8GB VRAM to see if the additional memory could improve its performance. The modified card not only outpaced the original model but also outperformed a stock GTX 1060 with 6GB of VRAM in some benchmarks. Brazilian hardware modder Paulo Gomes modified an Asus Strix GTX 970 for his experiment. To boost VRAM, he removed the original 512MB, 7 Gbps GDDR5 modules and replaced them with 1GB, 8 Gbps chips. He also added
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 21:36:00
A hot potato: Although Nvidia has caught the most flak for continuing to sell mid-range $400+ graphics cards with just 8GB of VRAM, AMD has also persisted with this approach in the budget-performance segment. Although independent benchmark data reveals the ongoing quality and performance sacrifices associated with smaller VRAM pools, Team Red continues to defend its lower-tier products with statements that, while technically accurate, obscure the true value propositions of modern GPUs. AMD's Fr
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vramfs Unused RAM is wasted RAM, so why not put some of that VRAM in your graphics card to work? vramfs is a utility that uses the FUSE library to create a file system in VRAM. The idea is pretty much the same as a ramdisk, except that it uses the video RAM of a discrete graphics card to store files. It is not intented for serious use, but it does actually work fairly well, especially since consumer GPUs with 4GB or more VRAM are now available. On the developer's system, the continuous read p
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Like Bigfoot or the chupacabra, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 is being spotted in the wild by ravenous GPU buyers ready to believe any hint of a footprint indicates how powerful a beast they are. If anything, the latest leaks suggest we may be on track for a full reveal as soon as this week. The first hints of the card found in a pre-built desktop tower indicate the next Blackwell GPU could be relatively cheap, but that may not matter much if Team Green’s next graphics card is limited on VRAM. Fr
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Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM 2025-02-22 I’m setting up an old Dell box (2011-era tech). I was migrating to some new boot drives and setting up grub on them again. Got to the point of deleting the old boot entries and adding new ones, and got an error like Could not prepare boot variable: No space left on device . Weird, because there weren’t that many EFI variables, but df -h also reported that efivars was full: efivarfs 64K 60K 0K 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars funky. It wasn’t due t
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