Just built a Ryzen 5900x system (it's amazing how cheap last years technology can be), and while waiting for Memtest to finish running, I realized that there's one killer feature missing. CPU Temp.
No, I don't want to KNOW CPU temp - Memtest already does a good job of displaying that. What I want is a configurable item called "Desired CPU Temp", which uses spare CPU cycles (and/or spare CPU cores) to attempt to drive the processor temp up to the setting. I know that silicon gets slower as it gets hotter; so what I want to be able to do is run MemTest with my CPU at 90C (with Memtest throttling the CPU-intensive tasks to stay around the temp setting) to assure that memory errors don't start cropping up when I'm running an ASIC simulation using all cores at 100% (who am I kidding; let's go with "running a AAA game that drives the CPU and GPU temps through the roof"). Laying on the floor for hours pointing a hair dryer at the CPU while Memtest runs is one solution, I guess; plugging/unplugging the CPU fan based on the displayed temperature is another. But those seem somewhat...redneck.
Anyway, I really appreciate the availability of Memtest86. I've been using it for a lot of years - but only about once every 5 years or so when I build a new machine. This new machine is replacing my workhorse Phenom II X4 machine (OK, so it's been more than 5 years for this one). Heck, it was great (well, actually, disappointing) when I enabled XMP on my DDR4 and had Memtest tell me it was failing - it would have been remarkably frustrating to find that out without Memtest. Tweaked a few values, and now things are looking great. Thanks.
No, I don't want to KNOW CPU temp - Memtest already does a good job of displaying that. What I want is a configurable item called "Desired CPU Temp", which uses spare CPU cycles (and/or spare CPU cores) to attempt to drive the processor temp up to the setting. I know that silicon gets slower as it gets hotter; so what I want to be able to do is run MemTest with my CPU at 90C (with Memtest throttling the CPU-intensive tasks to stay around the temp setting) to assure that memory errors don't start cropping up when I'm running an ASIC simulation using all cores at 100% (who am I kidding; let's go with "running a AAA game that drives the CPU and GPU temps through the roof"). Laying on the floor for hours pointing a hair dryer at the CPU while Memtest runs is one solution, I guess; plugging/unplugging the CPU fan based on the displayed temperature is another. But those seem somewhat...redneck.
Anyway, I really appreciate the availability of Memtest86. I've been using it for a lot of years - but only about once every 5 years or so when I build a new machine. This new machine is replacing my workhorse Phenom II X4 machine (OK, so it's been more than 5 years for this one). Heck, it was great (well, actually, disappointing) when I enabled XMP on my DDR4 and had Memtest tell me it was failing - it would have been remarkably frustrating to find that out without Memtest. Tweaked a few values, and now things are looking great. Thanks.
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