RAM stress test?

[Saberen]

I plan on overclocking my corsair vengeance RAM and i am wondering if anyone has a tool i can install that shows my RAM's clock speed and i was also wondering if the Prime 95 Blend test is good enough to see if the RAM clockspeed is stable.

 

[simonax12]

Yes Prime95 is the best option to stress test RAM but make sure you run it for long time E.g overnight to see how well it does and if it freezes you will see the when errors started appearing and then you know what is the max it can do. Basically run it until it freezes.

 

[boju]

Under blend mode Prime95 overnight should bring an indication to stability.

If you want Prime95 to push harder set the memory size higher.

When the 'Run a torture test' window pops up click custom and increase memory to use(in MB)

Default is 1600MB. Set it to use most of your ram, keeping at least a gig free for the rest of the system, not only that if you set it too high the operating system will start using page file and memory wont be tested properly. Leave 'Run FFTs in-place' unchecked as this is more to do with cpu.

Running Prime95 at default 1600MB however will end with the same results, if theres a problem will find it, just slower is all.

Another popular test you can do which is arguably better than prime95 at testing ram is http://www.memtest86.com/

 

[simonax12]

Memtest doesnt pressure RAM it only test RAM cells to see if they have no error in them.

 

[Tradesman1]

Prime will be good, and will test the whole rig as a whole, where Memtest primarily simply test the DRAM , not the other components along w/ the DRAM

 

[Pinhedd]

+1 for Prime 95 in blend mode.

It's hard to find any application that really "stresses" memory in the same way as say, stressing the CPU's floating point execution units. With that said, memory is also much less likely to flake out at seemingly random times. Once it's stable, it should stay stable.

Another good test is Intel Burn Test in Very High mode or Maximum mode if you have all night to spare.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Cpu-z displays all of your rams main settings.
Prime 95 is a good stress test if you run the torture test/blend setting. But make sure you have good cooling on the processor or it will overheat.
Memtest86 will check just the ram but does not heat things up like Prime 95. But you need to run at least 7 passes or overnight.
OCCT is another good stability test.
If you are looking for production stability instead of gaming stability you need to run OCCT + Prime95 and loop 3DMark for at least 24 hours all at the same time. If it passes then load up Folding@Home for 24-48 hours.
Folding@Home is the ultimate stability test after you have ran all of the other test first and they passed.

 

[bryanl]

Ram stress test is better than Memtest86+ but not nearly as good as the testers used by Micron and Samsung, and for the price of RST you can buy 10-20 first-rate 8GB DIMMs. Why bother with Corsair if you care that much about quality?