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[Orbital-Fetus]

I know I got the ram sticks in the right slots. What's the best way of testing out my ram? I'm doing a blended test on Prime 95, that tests out ram too, but I'm not sure it's the best test

how many ram sticks do you have?
i had 4.

i took one out at a time and played.
if the crash happened i put the stick that was out back in and took another out.

i did this until i found the bad stick.
then i retested the bad stick and it was the only one that caused crashes while gaming.

i still have the stick so i can at it whenever i see it.

 

[Ciggavelli]

how many ram sticks do you have?
i had 4.

i took one out at a time and played.
if the crash happened i put the stick that was out back in and took another out.

i did this until i found the bad stick.
then i retested the bad stick and it was the only one that caused crashes while gaming.

i still have the stick so i can at it whenever i see it.

at the bolded


I just ran a windows memory diagnostics test and the RAM appears to be all good.

I have 2 8gb sticks.

I'm gonna run BF4 for like 3 hours straight. If I get a crash again, I'm gonna try your method.

Thanks for the help breh

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

at the bolded


I just ran a windows memory diagnostics test and the RAM appears to be all good.

I have 2 8gb sticks.

I'm gonna run BF4 for like 3 hours straight. If I get a crash again, I'm gonna try your method.

Thanks for the help breh

i ran a ram diagnostic and it came up clean.
but when i did an actual physical test by taking one out at a time it told a different story.

 

[Ruck]

copped sonic all star racing transformed for 5 dolla @ gamersgate

 

[Ruck]

hopefully splinter cell blacklist will be around $10 or under during these summer sales. its the only game im waiting on

 

[Ciggavelli]

i ran a ram diagnostic and it came up clean.
but when i did an actual physical test by taking one out at a time it told a different story.

Interesting. Did your shyt crash after a certain amount of time or was it a quick crash when you started the game?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Interesting. Did your shyt crash after a certain amount of time or was it a quick crash when you started the game?

it would crash after 20 minutes or so.
everything would be gravy but then it would freeze...i had to do a hard reboot.
everything else was fine except for gaming more than 20-30 minutes.

 

[Ciggavelli]

it would crash after 20 minutes or so.
everything would be gravy but then it would freeze...i had to do a hard reboot.
everything else was fine except for gaming more than 20-30 minutes.

Did it happen with every game, or just some?

 

[DF is BUSY]

How long do y'all normally run a Prime95 stress test?

I keep getting random freezes in games (where I have to hard reset my machine). I'm not sure what is causing it (maybe windows 8), but I wanna check my CPU temps under stress. It's been going for about 5 minutes and I'm at 45C with all cores (nothing is OC'd right now). I know that's good, but how long should I run it to make sure everything is all good?


Do i really gotta run this for 24 hours?

run handbrake to render files for about 15 mins
run 10 maximum passes linpack/Intel burn test
prime95 for 12 hours is considered rock stable me thinks

 

[DF is BUSY]

@Ciggavelli


memtest86+ or bust.

run a complete pass with all ram (about an hour or so iirc) , no errors = should be fine

 

[Ciggavelli]

I've been playing BF4 for about 2 hours straight and no problems. I'm gonna run that memtest86 now I think.

Thanks @DF is BUSY

edit: I guess I'll have to do memtest86 later. I gotta have a disk I see...

 

[spliz]

I can get wolfenstein the new order for 50 bucks..should I bite the bullet?..

 

[daze23]

I can get wolfenstein the new order for 50 bucks..should I bite the bullet?..

that's not really a great price as far as PC deals go...

 

[spliz]

that's not really a great price as far as PC deals go...

I feel u but the game just dropped so everywhere else is running it for 60 bucks..I'm reading everywhere that it's a really good game tho..just wanted to know if anyone has played it..

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Did it happen with every game, or just some?

at the time i was playing Just Cause 2, DMC and Blood Dragon and all 3 of those games crashed after about 20-30 minutes of play.