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• abufrejoval - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

  Should be a lot of fun finding all these rowhammer suceptabilitites that just keep getting worse and worse...
  
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09724.pdf

• Duwelon - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

  Could be wrong, but I doubt MemTest86 can detect RowHammer at all, it tends to read / write large patches of RAM as quickly as possible and won't stop on any single row long enough to trigger any corruption that the attack describes.
  
  Anyway this feature is long overdue and I hope they bring it over to X570 boards too.

• Duwelon - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

  Nevermind! Apparently they added a "Hammer" feature in 6.2 designed exactly for this, nice to know.

• Kougar - Monday, February 1, 2021 - link

  Shame, Memtest86+ was better last I tried them both out

• calc76 - Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - link

  memtest86+ finally put out a new update last April after not having been updated in 7 years.
  
  It will be interesting to see if it manages to continue to be maintained at all, it is certainly well behind memtest86 at this point.

• Hxx - Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - link

  i wonder if this will trickle into other chipset like z490? one can only hope

• Oxford Guy - Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - link

  Memory testing and overclocking testing should have been built into every motherboard capable of overclocking since the beginning.
  
  That it hasn't been is one of the sad examples of stupendous industry stupidity.
  
  Similarly, Windows should have had an overclocking mode for safe overclocking testing, to prevent corruption of one's installation.

• mode_13h - Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - link

  I already bought a full copy, late last year. Every time I build a PC or upgrade the memory in one, I always make sure to do an overnight memtest. One time, I got errors on a new DIMM only on the second full iteration.