Yes. For example, when trying to track down the bad stick of ram, either
prime95 or OCCT were best as they crashed immediately. However, once you
get the good/bad sticks sorted out, it's probably best to let them all
run for many hours in the hope to have the best chances of ending up
with a perfectly stable system.
On 1/18/2010 11:30 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
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
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