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RAM Quality/Speed effect on GPU ?
Gang
I noticed something in the last day or two that baffles me.
Many of you know that Windows' "display driver stopped responding" crashes can occur with many versions of Radeon and GeForce cards. There are fixes for these issues, with varying success, either via Profiles/Presets with modified core and idle clock values, or by disabling the check routine in Registry.
I've noticed that some combos of deskops/cards are more problematic, and some are no issues at all, and I've never understood the magic. Few laptops exhibit the issue - which also I don't understand fully.
So, on a HP desktop with a modest Radeon 5450 card, I had never seen the problem occur even once despite a LOT of use. But I needed to "borrow" 2GB memory from the machine for a project, then replaced with parts I bought off Ebay, HP P/N's original spec for the desktop. After installing those, all looked good except I got the "display driver stopped" crash/recover for the first time ever.
the card is the same. the card's DDR didn't change..... only the system mem changed and I suspect that the timing of one of those memory sticks is different from the other 3 [more check needed].
Which brings the question: Does faster/better memory somehow help the GPU response?