But I must say this: 200 passes is very few passes, you need to let it rip for at least 1400, the way things are written and read back on each pass explores only some of the memory capacity as I understand it. Loose analogy: you go into a library and test its efficiency (not size), by seeing if a book in the directory is really on the shelves where it says. You can get lucky with a few books. But don't be too confident unless you have tested many random books. How many? Well, one can work these things out depending on how big the library is and so on. But the point about RAM is it would be nice to have a very high degree of confidence, as close to 100% as possible, the smallest faults can have the biggest effect on one's work...
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I have let the tests run all night. And done that on the same RAM repeatedly. In my case the chips were mismatched and although all showed good they would still hang the computer on startup no mater how good they are.
But 4 or even 6 DIMMs are only worth so much of ones time and effort.. Sometimes you just need to move on.
And the parts that wind up on the shelf. Where do they go ? The trash can ? The swap list ? eBay ?
Perhaps to find happiness in someone else's hardware configuration. Or to give weeks or month's of fits to
a future Mac user ?
-- Adrian
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