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RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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post #21

I mean you could just use this, right? https://downloadmoreram.com

When I was a kid software that would "double your RAM" was a thing. I remember thinking it was awesome, and at the same time feeling a huge sense of doubt that you could do that.

MacOS does memory compression as standard since 2013. Linux has it, and iirc even Windows has it since 10.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

#24
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When trying to book an upgrade: "Please note: All Upgrades have been put on hold due to the double cost of Memory Modules. The option to upgrade the supported GPUs has been disabled on the booking page."

Bummer. I have a box full of 2080s that are leftovers from a previous foray.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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post #21

I mean you could just use this, right? https://downloadmoreram.com

When I was a kid software that would "double your RAM" was a thing. I remember thinking it was awesome, and at the same time feeling a huge sense of doubt that you could do that.

SoftRam. Raymond Chen wrote a great technical analysis on what it actually did: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. Even a smaller town will have a random repair shop where a guy will replace phone screens, solder in a replacement power supply, and he seemingly has some kind of connection that can get him all these parts from Shenzhen. A comparable sized town in America won't have anything comparable other than a Dollar General selling phone chargers.

A comparable town in the US would absolutely have a local or franchise repair business doing those things. What neither of them will have in abundance are shops replacing BGA modules as an upgrade. For that it'd be major cities only.

At least in Australia, anything outside common phone repairs goes in to the "not worth it" basket. I had a USB-C port snap of a microphone, PCB pads were still fine, just needs someone to use a hot air gun to attach a new port. Repair stores didn't want to touch it.

And I can see the logic. Wages are so high that anything that they can't exactly know the repair time and success rate can easily exceed the device value. While in lower income countries they can afford to mess around for quite a while on repairs since the replacement cost is relatively massive.

Re: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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This seems to be a company in the UAE. I've noticed in general that the far (and middle) East have far more miscellaneous repair services companies than the West, and also more information online about it (albeit not in English.)

Yeah. Even a smaller town will have a random repair shop where a guy will replace phone screens, solder in a replacement power supply, and he seemingly has some kind of connection that can get him all these parts from Shenzhen. A comparable sized town in America won't have anything comparable other than a Dollar General selling phone chargers.

And the person at the repair shop typically has a Masters degree in electrical engineering or similar.
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