Memtest86+ found ONE lone error on pass 6.

deWiced

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Hello!

Recently bought and assembled a new rig. Had no crashes in games so far (except one "stopped working" in too heavily modded skyrim). After my buddy had a bit of weird behaviour with his pc I decided to do a bit of testing myself, since the components are fairly new (one month exactly).

Yesterday I was absent the whole day so I left memtest running. After close to 24h the result looks like this:
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So, what does this mean? 10 full passes are plenty and one lone error could be just due to overheating or something... I also don't quite understand the failing address. Does that mean this sector would be accessed only when ram is fully utilized?

By the way, RAM is a g.skill sniper, 16gb (2x8gb), 1600mhz.

Bottom line is that I don't have another ddr3 ram lying around and have urgent work to do. How come there's only one fail while the tests are supposed to be the same for each pass.

Thanks in advance!

edit: I should point out I did run the windows ram test too and it found no errors, nor do I have constant BSOD's or anything like it. So far.
 
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Regular memory is always susceptible to random errors, that is why there is a market for ECC memory. Could have been stray solar radiation, radioactive decay, power fluctuation or heat from running the complete test as you say.

Probably fine for everyday tasks.

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Regular memory is always susceptible to random errors, that is why there is a market for ECC memory. Could have been stray solar radiation, radioactive decay, power fluctuation or heat from running the complete test as you say.

Probably fine for everyday tasks.
 
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deWiced

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Thanks for the quick answer! This is what I am actually hoping for (a random occurance)... Still wanted a bit of insight, other than the usual "RMA EVERYTHING" response. Thanks.

Will leave it running over the night. If it doesn't fail on the same address it's probably not much to worry about. Hopefully.

If anyone else has any insight, please do contribute!
 

deWiced

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Thanks you both for the answers! I'll keep the sticks for now. Hopefully nothing crazy happens.

Cheers!

ps. Sorry, for not being able to choose both solutions. I just picked the first one, so the topic shows as "answered".