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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by masklinn on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:30PM (#13682096)
Sure, but you won't solve excessive ambient radiation by running a stress test on your RAM.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by lisivka on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:49PM (#13682219)
A small radioactive («hot») dust particle will not change average radiation level a lot, but may cause problems with memory/cpu. Simple cleaning, by blowing dust out, fixes it. Saw that dozen of times, but years ago.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by EdHominem on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:32PM (#13689118)
Did you use a geiger counter to verify the dust was hot? Would something large enough to cause problems with the ram be large enough to detect?
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