memtest incorrectly recognizes my RAM

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Published on 2011-03-10T07:13:31Z Indexed on 2011/03/10 8:12 UTC
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I recently built a computer and randomly got a couple blue screens. I've run memtest and one of the memory sticks consistently throws memtest errors, while the other does not.

The odd part is, memtest lists the following settings for my RAM:

RAM: 535 MHz DDR 107 / CAS 2.5-1-3-1 DDR1 128 bits

But my RAM is DDR3 1600?

Memtest also lists my cpu as AMD K8, even though it's K10.

I've probably going to RMA the ram stick, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any insight into the weird memtest stats.

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