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11/6/12 at 8:36pm
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I've heard conflicting reports regarding using one or the other for testing a RAM overclock. Some people say Memtest86+ catches things that P95 doesn't and vice versa. What is your advice? I recently overclocked some Samsung low voltage 1600MHz RAM to 2133MHz and I passed 12 hours of Prime95 on Blend.
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11/6/12 at 8:38pm
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If it passed 12 hours of blend I would call it stable. I only run memtest if I'm getting errors at stock settings.
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11/6/12 at 11:29pm
I'd say that Prime95 is tougher but it takes WAY more time to detect an error than HCI Memtest.
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11/7/12 at 7:34am
if you want to test RAM stability/ reliability i would suggest MemTest4.0 (very fast)
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11/7/12 at 7:43am
DOS Memtest is ok for faulty module detection but as stability testing tool - in most cases it's even weaker than 32M.
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