I bought RAM, I tested them in Memtest86 - Have a few questions

liciousxxx

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Hello,

I just bought these RAM: HyperX Savage 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit

I wanted to test them to be sure that they are good, I found here on tom's that I should use memtest86 to test them. It showed me that they passed and that they have 0 errors.

Here are my questions:

At the first try the first full test lasted ~30 min, at the next test the full test lasted ~1:30 min. (the total being 2 hours) Is that bad?

At the first full test the iterations at the 9th or 10th #test was 80, but at that second full test the iteration was 200. Is that bad?

What is AdrsMode : 64 bit?

And why does it take a very long time ( a few minutes) to take my commands while using memtest86?


It is possible that I have may placed the RAMs in the wrong slots, but I changed their places and went back into Memtest86 and it was mostly the same so I didnt wait another 2 hours.

Here is the rest of my components :

GeForce GTX 560 Ti OC 1GB DDR5 256-bit - may be faulty
Motherboard: MSI P67A-C45 B3
Proc: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz box - Sandy Bridge
Seagate 500GB SATA-II 7200 rpm 16MB SpinPoint F3
Recom Pro Engine A600
 
Solution
All you need to look for with Memtest, is if any erros show up. You want ZERO. If it was OK with at least one full pass on each stick individually, the stick is probably OK. If you had used sticks that were suspect for causing crashes or BSODs, then you may want to run for several passes per stick. But with new RAM, I just run one pass.

You generally want to run memtest on each stick alone in the first slot for best results.

clutchc

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All you need to look for with Memtest, is if any erros show up. You want ZERO. If it was OK with at least one full pass on each stick individually, the stick is probably OK. If you had used sticks that were suspect for causing crashes or BSODs, then you may want to run for several passes per stick. But with new RAM, I just run one pass.

You generally want to run memtest on each stick alone in the first slot for best results.
 
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clutchc

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Just the way the signal the memory transistor uses is carried out. It measures the Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release time of the signal. Nothing of interest for most of us.
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