Just bought 16GB worth of RAM for under $100 from Newegg.
Windows gave me an error yesterday and suggested I run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, which I did. The first time, I just let it run the standard tests and then reboot back into Windows after 2 passes, and it said it didn't find anything wrong.
However, when I went to bed, I set it up to run the "extensive" tests and I set it to run infinitely. When I got up this morning, I saw that it was 90% through only the second pass (after having run for about 8 hours or so) and was saying that it had found errors, though it gave no really useful information at all other than "errors were found, contact your computer manufacturer." In this case, I guess the "computer manufacturer" would be me, given that I bought all the parts separately and put it together myself.
My computer still seems to be running mostly okay despite all that, but even so, I decided to just say screw it and buy some new RAM. As such, I just put in an order for 2 sets of this. I figured if I was going to be replacing my current amount of 4GB anyway, I might as well just go ahead and max it out already, based both on what the motherboard itself can handle and the fact that I'm running Windows Home Premium 64-bit, since both support a max of 16GB.
However, when I went to bed, I set it up to run the "extensive" tests and I set it to run infinitely. When I got up this morning, I saw that it was 90% through only the second pass (after having run for about 8 hours or so) and was saying that it had found errors, though it gave no really useful information at all other than "errors were found, contact your computer manufacturer." In this case, I guess the "computer manufacturer" would be me, given that I bought all the parts separately and put it together myself.
My computer still seems to be running mostly okay despite all that, but even so, I decided to just say screw it and buy some new RAM. As such, I just put in an order for 2 sets of this. I figured if I was going to be replacing my current amount of 4GB anyway, I might as well just go ahead and max it out already, based both on what the motherboard itself can handle and the fact that I'm running Windows Home Premium 64-bit, since both support a max of 16GB.