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Originally posted by Auzy View PostIt's actually incredible that in today's age, we are building Quantum computers, have supercomputers on our desk, but fully-buffered ECC ram isn't standard yet on today's desktops (which surely would help help weed out many faulty RAM modules)
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I've long switched to https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm which works great and I couldn't care less that it's a closed source application.
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Originally posted by waxhead View PostServers (with some load) usually use ECC RAM (and so should everything else in my opinion), but sadly that is not the truth.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostI've long switched to https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm which works great and I couldn't care less that it's a closed source application.
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Originally posted by CommunityMember View Post(outside the threadripper group proper ECC support is hit/miss, and reportedly mostly miss).
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Originally posted by birdie View PostI've long switched to memtest86 which works great and I couldn't care less that it's a closed source application.
And for those that take testing memory seriously at scale, there are the $5000+ hardware based memory testers which also allow tweaking of the parameters to over/under volt and over/under clock to detect memory that is living on the edge.
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