I think it unwise to use just one prog to determine anything. I finally
did end up letting it run to 7 passes with the good ram before killing
it...but both prime96 and OCCT bombed out almost immediately on the bad
ram...whereas with 8 GB installed, it took memtest a while to find
it...although it did find problems on the first pass (with the bad
ram). I think the ram I have in here now is fine. How many systems get
subjected to 10 passes of memtest anyhow? 8GB systems take forever with
memtest86+.
On 1/18/2010 7:00 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 12:40 AM 1/16/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
It's been running now for 8 hours, 26 minutes, 5 passes, no errors.
Is there really any point in letting this run more? It's testing 8
GB of ram, those these runs take forever. I can't image it would
suddenly uncover some bad ram.
I never would have run this in the first place, but I did have one
stick that was bad. Prime96 and OCCT would uncover the bad ram
immediately...it just took a bit of testing to isolate which stick
was bad. Once I found it and get a replacement stick, they then gave
no further errors. Now, after 8.5+ hours of memtest, I think this is
ram should be blessed as ok.
Right?
I used to figure two complete passes was "safe" but I've since tested
to 10 complete passes and found errors out on pass 7 and 9, so I'm not
completely sold on MemTest. But I'd base how long on number of passes
rather than time. The more you can live with, the more accurate. I'd
say 5 would be a bare minimum.
T
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