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UX with nVidia GTX 970 (Users)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 31.07.2022, 02:34

> Thank you for this information. I had never imagined that PAT was necessary
> for write-cache combining on the most modern systems. This is a better
> answer than I've found elsewhere or in trying to explain the freeze of all
> > 5th Gen Intel core systems, when using RayeR's utility, or another
> MTRR-enabler. This appears to be a yet anoth castration / "walled garden"
> limitation of modern systems.

My experience is that the freeze happens when the WC region overlapps an UC region. To avoid the overlap is way more difficult to achieve on Intel machines, because they lack the TOP_MEM and TOP2_MEM MSR registers of the AMD machines.

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Complete thread:

• UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 27.07.2022, 16:31 (Users)
  • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Oso2k, 28.07.2022, 04:49
  • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 30.07.2022, 02:34
    • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Ringding, 30.07.2022, 08:50
      • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 30.07.2022, 09:36
        • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Japheth, 31.07.2022, 02:34
          • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 03.08.2022, 06:31
            • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 16.08.2022, 19:20
              • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 17.08.2022, 02:46
                • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 17.08.2022, 15:38
                  • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 20.08.2022, 07:44
                    • UX with nVidia GTX 970 - marcov, 20.08.2022, 14:01