How to test and safely keep using your RAM

How to test and safely keep using your janky RAM without compromising stability using memtest86+ and the memmap kernel param.

  • kumi@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    OK, so let’s cut it down and say we have 4 PCs for someone with a family and home server, with 4 DIMMs each.

    You are saying the first rule of PC building says that this house should have at least 16 unused DIMMs on the shelf. I’d say 2-4 is reasonable if they are all compatible.

    “Buy two extra of everything” is a good rule and scales for the individual. “Buy double of everything” is not.