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RAM OC Stress Test; Which is better HCI's Memtest or Techpowerup's Memtest64?

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#1 ·
I just bought 32GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport; I tested them with HCI's Memtest (until 100% only), it reported no errors, so i'm cool with it.
The thing is HCI's it only allowed me to allocate 2048MB to each instance, so I had to open 15 instances to allocate all of the 30GB of memory I had to spare, on the other hand, Memtest64 from techpowerup allows me to do all this executing only a single instance, but I don't know how reliable the software is.

I'll be OCing the memory until I find a sweetspot and that means I'll be stressing the RAM very often until then, using one of those programs, so I was wondering, has anyone here tested both of them and decided which one is better?
 
#2 ·
Hello. Don't know which memtest is better, what I use is MemTest86 7.3 Pro. As I recall it has 1 additional test compared to a free version. I don't have that much experience with OC'ing the memory, but here is what impressions I got from the forums on the priority of tests by its reliability:
1)Memtest from DOS. It's a preliminary test. Some people run it for 24 hours or more, especially if lowering Command Rate timing. As I get, 100% stability can't be confirmed by any number of hours, as further testing from windows is needed. Although I've read in some review about a utility for memory testing that costs about $700, which should confirm it for good.
2)Aida64 System Stability Test(Stress System Memory + Stress Cache)
3)Prime 95 Blend or Custom(with the range of FFT sizes most stressful for the particular CPU) and 80-85% of memory.
 
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