Testing memory on Ivy Bridge

[Donster]

Hello people

Hope you are all well?

I have just built the following system and need some advice

IB 3770K + Corsair H100
Asus Maximus V Gene with latest bios
8GB 1866Mhz Dominator-GT
GTX 680
2x Vertex 4 SSD
Corsair HX 850

My question is what do I use to test the memory? Will memtest86+ 4.20 be ok?

cheers

[mav2000]

Yes, memtest should be fine. But if you want a quick test of your system stability, try super pi 32m as well as cinebench. It should give you a good idea of the system stability. Also try linx.

[andressergio]

hyperpi with 32M and then memtest windows is what i use

[Andrea deluxe]

hyperpi with 32M and then memtest windows is what i use

agree!

[Donster]

Thanks for the response people


I have read there is a known issue with this version of memtest and IB systems, apparently there is a bug in the SW that reports a few errors between 0 and 1MB, these errors always happen on test 5

look here

http://forum.canardpc.com/threads/68...d-betatesters-!

here is the quote I'm reffering to

Originally Posted by brickfrog
Hello,

I have tried 5.00b1 on two different motherboards of the same model. Both of them will run without error for several passes, then experience an error in test 5. The error only seems to occur during test 5. Motherboard is an Asus M5A97, which has UEFI. Memory is Kingston ECC DDR3-1600. I am attaching 2 screenshots for your reference. Notice that the speed detection is inconsistent; one shows "741 MHz (DDR3-1482) - BCLK: 92" and the other shows "802 MHz (DDR3-1605) - BCLK: 100".

Can you tell me if I'm hitting a bug in the beta, or if I probably do have bad memory? I was able to run Memtest86+ 4.20 many, many times (over 20 runs) without any errors.

Thanks for all your hard work!

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2673/errorkd.jpg
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6663/memoryj.jpg

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I should add that ECC is enabled in BIOS, which has been updated to the latest version. The error always occurs at a very low memory address, usually 0.1MB or 0.4MB.

Doc TB who codes memtest86+ replied with this


The error in test#5 at 0x13CF0 & 0x13CF8 is a bug in the code. It will be solved in the next beta. Did you get an error at another address ? It will help to get a screenshot.

I'm really not sure if I should trust this beta, my bro has a SB machine ... do you think I should memtest the RAM in his machine?

any help appreciated guys