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Apr 13 2019 10:14pm
My buddies 980 only shows 3.5GB of vram and 35xx mb of ram in gpuz.

He says it runs fine but I'm losing my mind at the fact that it's still working with no artifacts.

Anyone else ever have a card that one Vram chip went bad on?

/E and it was just the 970 that was effected by ramgate correct?

This post was edited by kclla on Apr 13 2019 10:15pm
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Apr 14 2019 12:42am
/e Internet says NO.





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970's on the other hand...
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Quote (Ghot @ Apr 14 2019 12:42am)


Word. So legit a 512MB ram module went bad or isn't being recognized.

I'm gonna have him redo drivers and maybe flip the bios switch on his card.

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Quote (kclla @ 13 Apr 2019 22:14)
My buddies 980 only shows 3.5GB of vram and 35xx mb of ram in gpuz.

He says it runs fine but I'm losing my mind at the fact that it's still working with no artifacts.

Anyone else ever have a card that one Vram chip went bad on?

/E and it was just the 970 that was effected by ramgate correct?



idk what your issue is, but a 970 only has 3.5gb “useable” ram. It had nothing to due with a ram module going bad. nvidia false advertised 4gb and got sued.

https://www.gtx970settlement.com/Home.aspx

the program he is using is inaccurate

This post was edited by Superman on Apr 25 2019 04:05pm
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Quote (Superman @ Apr 25 2019 04:58pm)
idk what your issue is, but a 970 only has 3.5gb “useable” ram. It had nothing to due with a ram module going bad. nvidia false advertised 4gb and got sued.

https://www.gtx970settlement.com/Home.aspx

the program he is using is inaccurate


No the 970 had 4gb the last .5 was slow and then they blocked it with drivers after. Before settling
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Quote (yupitsmeh @ Apr 25 2019 05:20pm)
No the 970 had 4gb the last .5 was slow and then they blocked it with drivers after. Before settling


I remember it being so slow that if the card actually did try to use the last .5 it was a stuttery mess. So it was better to just shut it off.

My buddy is still trying to figure out wtf is wrong with his 980 haha
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Apr 25 2019 08:02pm
By inaccurate, I meant Have your friend try a different program than gpuz. Sometimes they can be wrong.
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Quote (Superman @ Apr 25 2019 08:02pm)
By inaccurate, I meant Have your friend try a different program than gpuz. Sometimes they can be wrong.


Rainbow 6 seige in game only shows 3.5 available

Same with hw monitor.


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Quote (kclla @ Apr 25 2019 11:07pm)
Rainbow 6 seige in game only shows 3.5 available

Same with hw monitor.


Rip


Probably just a bad 512 module
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