Memory benchmarking / error checking application

john_smith

john_smith

john_smith

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Hi

I'm trying to diagnose an issue i'm having with my system whilst playing iRacing (it's all I use it for). Randomly the game will "hang" for a few seconds. The game has some onscreen performance counters. One of them indicates i'm having page faults.

"P Letter = Page Fault Meter (PFM), which indicates if you are experiencing page faults because your system is using your disk drive to make up for the lack of available physical RAM (Random Access Memory)."

I'm running a 7800x3d, MSI Tomahawk x670e, 2 x 16gb G.Skill Trident Neo Z5 6000/CL30, Samsung 990 Pro. I've EXPO enabled in the BIOS and i'm running "tight" memory setings. Hopefully I can run something and it shows errors and then I can change things and the errors go away :-).


Thank you.
 
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the first thing to do is reset bios, you say your running ""tight" memory settings" so the first step would be default everything.
if you have any overclocks reset them

to test memory i like TestMem5(TM5) it shows errors very fast


NOT to talk down to anyone but
Most people don't understand how ram timings work, and just adjust the top 4/5 but when you have any of the 40+ other times's set to auto when you adjust anything you system will change other setting to compensate you US been stupid.
so you think you making things faster but you can actually be slowing this down a lot and causing reload errors where the ram can miss a cycle because the timings are all to crap

people run a bench mark and go its faster a one very specific task so its good
there is nothing wrong with XMP/EXPO, anything you think you gain in the real world is 99% of the time in your head because you just think its faster
 
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john_smith said:
Thank you.

Please do talk down to me. :) I've just clicked the auto options in the bios and haven't done any manual OCing.
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when people say there running tight timings they normally mean that have messed with the 4 main timings.
if all you have done is load EXPO then run TestMem5 a few times, it dose tend to find errors fast
 
john_smith said:
Thank you.

Please do talk down to me. :) I've just clicked the auto options in the bios and haven't done any manual OCing.
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Have a look at task manager and see if the lockups aren’t related to an app.

I’ve had your issue recently on my ASUs laptop and it turned out to be a bad app (Apple iCloud was causing system lockups that mimicked RAM issues)

As a precaution, also do these:

Do driver updates if you haven’t already.

manually set the voltage of your RAM.

Use TestMem 5 with the ANTA 777 extreme config.
 
Memory testing I use:
Basic, recommended you start off with these first:
Memtest86 (Boot)
Memtest64 (Windows)

Advanced, recommend some but not all these tests unless you have the time:
HCI Memtest Pro (not free)
AIDA64 - full stability test.
OCCT - Memory Stability Test SSE & AVX2
TestMem5 - with ANTA777 Extreme or Absolut profile.
Prime95 - Large FFTs
Y-Cruncher (not really used this much but a lot of extreme overclockers swear by this one).
 
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