MemTest86 Question

[rpr]

I never used this program before (or any other memory testing app for that matter).

What is considered good results? Should I be shooting for 0 errors???

 

[Technonut]

You should not have any errors regardless of the number of loops run...

 

[zShowtimez]

I usually let it run for 10ish hours.. If i get ANY errors, I tweak some more until they go away.

 

[rpr]

I'm getting very flaky resukts with this program from my Kingstom HyperX PC4000. I don't get any errors at 400Mhz and 500Mhz DDR (at 1:1 timings), but I get a lot of errors at anything in between if I run the RAM at 5:4 timings.

This is a problem as my P4 setup runs fastest at 3.2Ghz with the DDR set at 5:4 timings. If I need to leave my DDR at 1:1 timings, the best I can do is 3.0Ghz.

I'm starting to think I should have gone w/ Geil or OCZ DDR.

 

[CuriousGeeorge]

I got the khx3500k2/1g kit on a p4p800 deluxe and when I started testing w/ 2-3-3-7-4 mam at auto and performance at standard I got a system halt in memtest86. No problems in windows, but I am gonna do some more testing. No OC at all just standard 1:1. SPD settings seem to pass all tests fine. I know geil has had plenty of problems as well, but not sure about OCZ. CPUZ shows spd settings as 2.5-3-3-8(I believe), but kingston says it is supposed to run fine at 2-3-3-7-1. Thinking of sending it to kingston for RMA(past initial 30 days... had way too much stuff to test in 30 days especially since I had to rma video card to vendor)....kinda sucks. Supposedly 512mb modules are more finicky anyway. I didn't really plan to overclock anyway, but wanted the option to oc a little and wanted matched pairs. Stability is a much bigger deal to me. You can't enable turbo or mam w/ most of the ram now available so those were kinda a joke. I feel your irritation