rotating RAM?

athlon64guy · **rotating RAM? -** 07-22-2012, 07:48 | posts: 164 | Location: Alberta, Canada

so i was told rotating your ram every few months or so is a good thing. is this true or just bs?

lehtv · 07-22-2012, 08:00 | posts: 3,085

elaborate what you mean by rotating it

in any case sounds like bs

smnoamls · 07-22-2012, 08:26 | posts: 1,427 | Location: israel

Total BS.
Of course, only as long as you remember to bless each ram module individually (necronomicon, chapter 2 verse 6) , and sacrifice a goat every...oh...9-12 months, the rotating thing is a non issue.

Chouji · 07-22-2012, 08:38 | posts: 5,564 | Location: In a house, on a hill, by a road.

rotating your ram is completely useless.
Flipping your mattress however can extend it's life greatly.
Since ram is volatile memory, it doesn't have those read/write limitations of non-volatile memories such as nand memory.

I have never known of ram to wear out from normal usage. Only damage from overclocking, and from manufacturing defects.
Many manufacturing defects, especially in later addresses aren't screened out during testing, because testing is usually very basic.
And it's not until advance testing on the users end, stress testing, that the defects surface.

When they fail, they fail, they don't wear down gradually like you're thinking.
Now then you should do memory test every 6 months or so, just run prime95 for a day or so. Can still websurf and stuff too.

Pill Monster · 07-22-2012, 08:48 | posts: 20,456 | Location: NZ

lol.

Agent-A01 · 07-22-2012, 16:05 | posts: 5,621 | Location: USA

I think he means swapping the dimms in diff slots.. lol its bs

Mufflore · 07-22-2012, 16:22 | posts: 9,519 | Location: UK

Quote:

Originally Posted by athlon64guy

so i was told rotating your ram every few months or so is a good thing. is this true or just bs?

A good thing for what?
Its bs, but am interested to hear what was said.

---TK--- · 07-22-2012, 16:25 | posts: 14,696 | Location: New Jersey, USA

bullshyt

PhazeDelta1 · 07-22-2012, 16:35 | posts: 9,314 | Location: 90° N

I got +17FPS in Battlefield 3 by rotating my ram 360°.

EpicLoss · 07-22-2012, 16:48 | posts: 824 | Location: Midlands/UK

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

I got +17FPS in Battlefield 3 by rotating my ram 360°.

i do mine 720° just to be doubly sure :p

k1net1cs · 07-22-2012, 17:02 | posts: 3,319

And don't stack your thumb drives together, because if one has a virus the others would be infected!

(...something I actually believed when I was still a kid when floppies were still floppy...)

RDilus · 07-22-2012, 17:12 | posts: 92 | Location: Netherlands

i get 120fps on ultra on BF3 when i let them in water for one week and ofcrouse rotating them in ice after that

clawhamer · 07-22-2012, 17:54 | posts: 1,542 | Location: eastcoast.ca

...good read for a laugh