Use VRAM as RAM -- might be going crazy
Hi! I was wondering if I could use VRAM as RAM (not the other way around, yeah), here's some context:
I'm running this system with some scrap parts I had around, those being an i7-8700K, 4+2 GB DDR4, an extremely unreliable, but functional 256GB SSD I bought off AliExpress for $7 and a Quadro P5000.
Since energy for me is pratically free (solar in Japan, completely self-sustainable), I thought about using this as a little shits and giggles rig for mining, and it ran well. But XMRig's not-so-nice-but-extremely-profitable huge pages feature + GPU mining has left me torturing the SSD in exchange for swap.
Since the GPU mining only takes up around 6 GB of VRAM, I was wondering if I could use the rest of that as actual system RAM instead, does anybody here have any clue about how I could accomplish this?
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Hey, I just found this github repository when I searched for "VRAM Disk" on Google: https://github.com/prsyahmi/GpuRamDrive
Also there seems to be someone who installed Crysis 3 on the VRAM of his RTX 3090 using this tool: https://x.com/Strife212/status/1312553602934865923 (Reddit post where I found this tweet: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/j54qh4/gamer_installs_crysis_3_on_geforce_rtx_3090s_vram/).
I am however not sure if this would work for your usecase.
Good find. He can simply put his swap partition on his VRAM disk. Not exactly turning VRAM into actual RAM but similar.
The KingSpec were known for being a decent Chinese brand if you managed to get original ones off Aliexpress. But SSDs on Aliexpress are likely counterfeit, report fake capacity, or may be an array of cheap SD cards on a SATA adapter. I was defrauded last week on AliScamfest.