On Friday 27 October 2000 05:09 pm, you wrote:
> > I just increased my memory from 64 MB to 192 MB. Mandrake
> recognized it perfectly and everything is great so far. However I
> would like to test it by a really memory intensive application
> before the 30 day warranty runs out. Any suggestions?
Well, if ya think the cpu is up to it, and if you've got a decent
motherboard, crank the bus up about 33+%, increase the IO voltage to
3.5+ and boot memtest86 ;>
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
Ram is what it'll do. I've had a stick of pc100 (8ns) runnin at
135mhz cas2 on 3.55 volts for 2 1/2 years, -o- errors. It will do
155mhz at cas3, still -o- errors. I don't have a higher fsb to test
it with.
Seriously, there is no way to test ram with software other than
to push it as far/fast as it'll go, and see how long it lasts. Even
then you're testing it as part of the cpu/cache/ram system, altho
memtest86 allows you to toggle on/off the L2 cache. The quality and
stability of the motherboard is just as important as the ram itself.
Excellent ram is no better than junk ram if the motherboard's not
high quality (something you rarely find in anything but a quality
home or shop built system, specially if it overclocked, and never in
a ready made).
The equipment necessary to test ram is 10's of thousands of
$$'s, and not readily available to most folks ;)
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
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