Memory Question

[jgis19]

I think I read somewhere that newly installed memory shoild be "burned in". I am not quite sure hw this is done or the benefits to it. The memory is two sticks of Muskin 512 mb pc 2700.
Thanks

[KHT]

Burning in of memory or an entire system is running it at full capacity, or under stress for an extended period of time to see if any failures occur.

It is done usually by running a diagnostic program designed to do this. Be aware though that when burning in\testing RAM, you need to disable the L2 cache or you will be testing the L2 cache instead of the actual RAM and get misleading results.

[Spyda]

you need a program like sisoft sandra to do it

[jgis19]

Thanks for the reply's. Is it necessary for this memory?

[Spyda]

no

[bailey]

that is a old wives tale today, there is no such thing that is of any use with todays techinolgy, eather it works or it don't, there is nothing in todays computers that will change value when pushed to the hilt, so if it boots and you can load the softwhare, your done, finished, complete.

bottom line eather it works right off the bat or it don't.

[jgis19]

Thanks for all your help, the memory wasn't cheap, so I just wanted to make sure it was operating at full capacity.