How to test CAS stability of memory???

[DeezNtz]

Okay heres my situation. I recently just bought another 128 MB stick of Major Brand PC-133
memory from my local computer shop. Sandra's info on that stick says it has Samsung chips on it. Before I bought this stick I only had one stick of 128 MB PC-133 with Micron chips. With the stick of Micron I ran it at CAS 2 in the BIOS flawslessly without any problems. Now that I added the Samsung stick and still have the BIOS running at CAS 2 I have had some problems like random freezes in IE 5.5 or Outlook Express sometimes. My question is what program(s) are a good stability tester to see if my memory can run at CAS 2 without problems or if I'll have to revert back to CAS 3? Thanks in advance.

 

[ledzepp98]

i don't know if this will apply to everyone but i have found that quake3, unreal tournament, and 3dmark2k have been able to let me know that my ram timings were too aggressive. i have pc133 cas3 ram which is 99% stable at cas2, even running sandra's memory test. however, at cas2 3dmark2k will randomly dump back to the desktop or unreal tournament/q3 will freeze or also dump to the desktop.

 

[Grendel99]

Yeah like ledzepp said. I use Q3A and 3DMark2000 and other various 3d things to test stability with things. Try setting your timing to CAS 3 and see if your problem continues.

 

[sharkeeper]

Prime95.

Cheers!

 

[DeezNtz]

Okay thanks guys. I tried running Prime 95 for over an hour and no crashes. Now I'm going to try running the Quake 3 demo but how do you loop the first demo? What is the command at the console in order to loop it?

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

bah. Prime 95 don't stress ram any more than opening windows. it's stress the CPU and cache if anything.

you need mem hungry apps. Q3 and 3Dmark will do. don't bother w/ P95, RC5, Seti.