[mythtv-users] RAM differences, was: will this system cut it ?

[allan k]

What is destructive badbloacks? It sounds useful.. 


On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 18:00 -0400, Graham Mitchell wrote:
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:43 AM
> To: sonofzev at iinet.net.au; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] RAM differences, was: will this system cut it ?
> 
> I now try to buy the cheapest RAM I can find, as long as I buy from a 
> reputable vendor with good return policies, am I wrong?
> 
> 
> If you're not going to overclock, then probably not... I seem to have been
> majoring in OCZ at the moment, but also had Crucial and Kingston when on
> sale. One thing I would always, ALWAYS do, no matter who the manufacturer
> is, is to run it for at least 8 or 9 passes on Memtest86+ (I usually run it
> over night, or when I am at work). It's pretty good at testing out RAM, and
> I've had it find bad sticks of pretty much every brand of RAM I have. (I am
> also one of those people who run a destructive badblocks on every disk I buy
> - particularly before putting in any RAID array).
> 
> 
> G
>