As said in the title, can my RAM go corrupt/fry and how would I tell if it was (physically), this is because I was playing rainbow six siege one hot day (roughly 26c (hot for England)) and I get my first blue screen in 8 months of buying the PC, with error code memory_management. I google the code to see what comes up and I go onto a website it tells me 3 solutions, to use antivirus and do a fullscan, were there was 5 detected items scattered around my pc, they were deleted, the issue continued. I then tried in command prompt "sfc/scannow" which was another reccomended thing, I kept blue screening whilst doing the test so never finished it. I then tried a windows memory diagnostic tool (i think it was called) preinstalled so I didn't think it was a virus, and it detected a fault in my RAM, I was hoping that it was just one of my slot's where your RAM goes that had fried/died instead of my RAM as I have 4 RAM slots. I tried moving the sticks around different slots, error still occured, unplugged a stick, which my PC instantly bluescreened on loadup (after the screen where u can enter bios) so i plugged that stick back in, unplugged the other one and haven't had the issue since. But with that happening (sorry for going off topic a bit) I was worried about my GPU/CPU being fried also, because why would one stick of RAM fry but nothing else, so I was also wondering if only having 4gb of RAM will make some games more laggy at points?
Specs:
i5 4690k OC @4ghz
GTX 970
4x2 (now 4x1) corsair vengeance 1600mhz
1tb HDD
Asusrock Mobo
Specs:
i5 4690k OC @4ghz
GTX 970
4x2 (now 4x1) corsair vengeance 1600mhz
1tb HDD
Asusrock Mobo
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