At 08:55 AM 1/18/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
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+.
Depends on how important getting a good test is. :) If you are getting faster fail results with Prime96 and OCCT, then I'd use those.
T
