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Memtest86+ Is Back After 9 Years (tomshardware.com) 60

Posted by BeauHD from the rewritten-from-scratch dept.
Memtest86+ just got its first update after 9 years. The program has reportedly been rewritten from scratch and is back in active development. The new version, 6.0, features a plethora of updates to bring the application up to date, and support the latest system hardware from Intel and AMD. Tom's Hardware reports: For the uninitiated, MemTest86 was originally created back in the mid 1990s, and was one of the earliest DDR memory testing applications for personal computers. But development stopped in 2013 once Memtest86 was split into Memtest86 and Memtest86", with the former being bought by PassMark. Officially, we don't know why development stopped. But compared to the now modern Memtest86, Memtest86+ is the open-source variant.

Needless to say, version 6.00 features a lot of updates, which were required to bring it up to modern standards compared to the 2013 version. The new version includes completely rewritten code for UEFI-based motherboards, the modern version of a BIOS, for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the application. Furthermore, the application features added support for x64 long mode paging, support for up to 256 cores, added detection for DDR4 and DDR5 memory -- since DDR3 was the latest memory standard in 2013 -- and adds support for XMP version 3.0.

CPU support has been significantly enhanced, addingdetection for all pre-Zen and AMD Zen-based processors ranging from the Ryzen 1000 series to 7000 series, and any older parts that were made after 2013. Intel support has also been added for chips up to 13th gen Raptor Lake. Finally, the last patch notes indicate version 6.0 adds support for older Nvidia and AMD chipsets - probably pre-2010 since it mentions Nvidia nForce chipsets, along with numerous bug fixes, optimizations and enhancements.

Comment Re:The fundamental problem (Score 1) 426

by dextarz (#58853654) Attached to: 44 US States Still Allow 'Religious Exemptions' For Vaccines

But you're labeled a racist is you point those facts out.

Because you're a racist, that's why. That and the fact that all of the places trigging your xenophobia are places that the US has fucked over. Far from turning them away, you should be giving them automatic citizenship at the border and a pension worth a million dollars, as reparations for a hundred years (or more) of American Imperialism.

Yes.... and at least three girls/boys per 'oppressed' person...

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