What Happens When I Go Over The VRAM Limit?

[prdgy]

Just wanting to know if anything will get damaged when I go over the VRAM limit?

Thanks

[Venlord]

No nothing gets damaged. When your dedicated GPU runs out of Vram then system memory the RAM sticks in your laptop or desktop start getting used up next. Once system memory is used upthen virtual memory or the page file on your drive is used next which is very slow.

So in other words things start to slow down, but nothing gets damaged.

[prdgy]

Originally posted by Venlord:

No nothing gets damaged. When your dedicated GPU runs out of Vram then system memory the RAM sticks in your laptop or desktop start getting used up next. Once system memory is used upthen virtual memory or the page file on your drive is used next which is very slow.

So in other words things start to slow down, but nothing gets damaged.

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. So little Vram being used equals longer lasting graphics card? Don't know much about Vram sorry.

[Venlord]

Originally posted by This Isn't COD?:

Originally posted by Venlord:

No nothing gets damaged. When your dedicated GPU runs out of Vram then system memory the RAM sticks in your laptop or desktop start getting used up next. Once system memory is used upthen virtual memory or the page file on your drive is used next which is very slow.

So in other words things start to slow down, but nothing gets damaged.

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. So little Vram being used equals longer lasting graphics card? Don't know much about Vram sorry.

Vram usage has does not have major effect if any on the life of the graphics card. Extremely high temperature is what will wear down the card really fast.

[prdgy]

Originally posted by Venlord:

Originally posted by This Isn't COD?:

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. So little Vram being used equals longer lasting graphics card? Don't know much about Vram sorry.

Vram usage has does not have major effect if any on the life of the graphics card. Extremely high temperature is what will wear down the card really fast.

Thanks for this!

[prdgy]

Originally posted by This Isn't COD?:

Originally posted by Venlord:

Vram usage has does not have major effect if any on the life of the graphics card. Extremely high temperature is what will wear down the card really fast.

Thanks for this!

One more question about temps.
Here are my temps after playing Arkham knight for a solid 15 minutes (not sure if 15 minutes is long enough for a decent test but I only have 5 minutes left till the 2 hour refund period is over so I have to make the right choice) with a stable 30fps capped:
GPU: 63c with 92% usage
cpu1: 28c
cpu2: 28c
cpu3: 30c
cpu4: 30c
cpu: 30c

[Venlord]

Originally posted by This Isn't COD?:

Originally posted by This Isn't COD?:

Thanks for this!

One more question about temps.
Here are my temps after playing Arkham knight for a solid 15 minutes (not sure if 15 minutes is long enough for a decent test but I only have 5 minutes left till the 2 hour refund period is over so I have to make the right choice) with a stable 30fps capped:
GPU: 63c with 92% usage
cpu1: 28c
cpu2: 28c
cpu3: 30c
cpu4: 30c
cpu: 30c

Those are cool temperatures you have.

I would not start to worry until until until your GPU reaches above 85C.

Depending on the CPU you want to try 65-70. But you definately don't want to go over 70C.

I think intel processors can take more heat but I'm not sure. Opinions kind of vary with temps though. For example my idle temps are higher than some other users because I have set my fans to turn on at 55C rather than have them run all the time even at idle.

[prdgy]

Originally posted by Venlord:

Originally posted by This Isn't COD?:

One more question about temps.
Here are my temps after playing Arkham knight for a solid 15 minutes (not sure if 15 minutes is long enough for a decent test but I only have 5 minutes left till the 2 hour refund period is over so I have to make the right choice) with a stable 30fps capped:
GPU: 63c with 92% usage
cpu1: 28c
cpu2: 28c
cpu3: 30c
cpu4: 30c
cpu: 30c

Those are cool temperatures you have.

I would not start to worry until until until your GPU reaches above 85C.

Depending on the CPU you want to try 65-70. But you definately don't want to go over 70C.

I think intel processors can take more heat but I'm not sure. Opinions kind of vary with temps though. For example my idle temps are higher than some other users because I have set my fans to turn on at 55C rather than have them run all the time even at idle.

You've helped a lot, thanks!