Why Test Computer Memory?
Memory prices are highly volatile. Memory’s also not always “cheap”! Consider that a common 1GB DDR2 DIMM sells for $100 (as of February 2007). But memory prices are just one part of the equation. You also need to consider the cost of your time, the cost of waste, and price of lost customer satisfaction. Save Time Testing memory on a motherboard can easily take hours. In just seconds RAMCHECK completes a diagnostic test of your memory module. If your techs are testing even a few modules each day, you can see how that wasted time quickly adds up! Save Money Motherboard conflicts can make it appear that the memory is at fault, while the memory may work fine in another machine. Don’t throw away suspected modules or let them gather dust in your storeroom – test them! Testing on a motherboard is very time-consuming. Worse, PC manufacturers use inexpensive memory sockets and these sockets are simply not designed for multiple insertion/removal cycles. Those PC memory sockets will break after
