I just built a new machine but I'm going to use 2 sticks out of a 4 stick pack in which 1 stick failed, but since 1 stick of that batch failed I'm testing it to ensure it's not all 4 or that there's not something odd. While testing with two sticks I got an error a couple hours in after a few full passes. So I took one stick out, and never got an error after about 24 hours. I took it out and put the other stick in (always testing from slot 1) and got an error after 33 hours. I suppose I should have took a pic of the error and details but never occurred to me. I'm rerunning another test on the other stick that originally passed so I can go past 33 hours, perhaps even longer.
Considering it took that long and that many passes to get an error, even if I don't get an error on this stick, should I even trust this ram at all? How sensitive is ram to temperature fluctuations? Since I don't heat my house at max when I'm not home to save on natural gas, the ambient temp ranges between around 11c and 22c depending on if I'm home or not.
I have another stick I did not test yet. If I can isolate one stick as being good I will then test the other, then I will test them again together. If I can pass the test after a couple days is it safe to assume it's good ram? Or am I better safe just finding more ram? Problem is, it's easy to find a motherboard that is compatible with specific ram, but harder to find ram that is compatible with a specific motherboard, I specifically picked this motherboard out of the ram's compatibility list, but motherboards don't tend to have extensive ram compatibility lists so I will have to cross reference each ram vendor AND make sure I can buy the ram through a Canadian retailer at a decent price, so it's quite a pain if I do have to buy more ram.
If it matters, the motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97MX-gaming 5. The ram is Gskill F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH (they are 4GB modules).
Considering it took that long and that many passes to get an error, even if I don't get an error on this stick, should I even trust this ram at all? How sensitive is ram to temperature fluctuations? Since I don't heat my house at max when I'm not home to save on natural gas, the ambient temp ranges between around 11c and 22c depending on if I'm home or not.
I have another stick I did not test yet. If I can isolate one stick as being good I will then test the other, then I will test them again together. If I can pass the test after a couple days is it safe to assume it's good ram? Or am I better safe just finding more ram? Problem is, it's easy to find a motherboard that is compatible with specific ram, but harder to find ram that is compatible with a specific motherboard, I specifically picked this motherboard out of the ram's compatibility list, but motherboards don't tend to have extensive ram compatibility lists so I will have to cross reference each ram vendor AND make sure I can buy the ram through a Canadian retailer at a decent price, so it's quite a pain if I do have to buy more ram.
If it matters, the motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97MX-gaming 5. The ram is Gskill F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH (they are 4GB modules).