Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 days agoIn fact they should try. Due to dual/quad mode the only thing testing multiple sticks at once will tell you is if any of the sticks have failed. Only going one by one will tell you which ones or how many, otherwise you’ll have red herrings
towerful@programming.dev 4 days ago
Yeh, the 16/32 in the screenshot and that 2 sticks are dead suggests they have 4x 8gb sticks, and lends credence that one channel is being messed with.
They said they tested the ram on multiple systems, but they might have just thrown both “dead” sticks in there at the same time - leading to a similar failure mode as they are both on the same channel.
I bet 1 stick is dead, and they could probably get away with 24gb of ram in a 3/2 channel distribution
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.