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We are pleased to announce the release of MemTest86 V6.0.0. This is the second major release in the new generation of memory testing on the UEFI platform.
As with the initial V5 release, MemTest86 V6 image supports dual booting (UEFI/BIOS). On machines that don't support UEFI, the older V4 BIOS release of MemTest86 will be automatically booted. MemTest86 V6 has been digitally signed by Microsoft and it compatible with secure boot.
What new in V6.0.0 compared to V5.1.0
Download links
The Pro Edition can be purchased from our sales page, either as USB image files that users can install on their own USB flash drives, or an already-made USB flash drive with MemTest86 pre-installed.
The Free Edition can be downloaded directly from our download page:
http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm
Version History
The full 20 year release history of MemTest86 can be found here,
http://www.memtest86.com/support/ver_history.htm
Pro Upgrades
If you purchased the Pro edition of V5, it is a free upgrade to V6 Pro. You can use the same download link to get V6.
As with the initial V5 release, MemTest86 V6 image supports dual booting (UEFI/BIOS). On machines that don't support UEFI, the older V4 BIOS release of MemTest86 will be automatically booted. MemTest86 V6 has been digitally signed by Microsoft and it compatible with secure boot.
What new in V6.0.0 compared to V5.1.0
- Support for DDR4 RAM (and associated hardware), including retrieval and reporting of DDR4-specific SPD details. This includes DDR4 RAM that support Intel XMP 2.0 DDR4 RAM timings.
- New RAM benchmarking feature allowing results to be graphed and saved to disk. Previous results can be graphed on the same chart for comparison.
- New "Row Hammer Test" for detecting disturbance errors caused by charge leakage when repeatedly accessing addresses in the same memory bank but different rows in a short period of time. This new test exposes inherent defects with DDR RAM modules manufactured in 2010 or newer, which is characterized in the research paper Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them: An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance Errors by Yoongu Kim et al.
- Language support for French/German/Japanese/Chinese. All text are displayed in the selected language, including generated reports.
- + 41 other fixes/enhancements (Full list of changes can be found here)
Download links
The Pro Edition can be purchased from our sales page, either as USB image files that users can install on their own USB flash drives, or an already-made USB flash drive with MemTest86 pre-installed.
The Free Edition can be downloaded directly from our download page:
http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm
Version History
The full 20 year release history of MemTest86 can be found here,
http://www.memtest86.com/support/ver_history.htm
Pro Upgrades
If you purchased the Pro edition of V5, it is a free upgrade to V6 Pro. You can use the same download link to get V6.