Memtest Test 13 errors - anything to worry about?

Nine Iron

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Just put a CPU and memory into my new board - no drives yet - and running some Memtest. The memory gets through every test fine except for #13, the Hammer one. System spec as follows: MSI Z97M Gaming with lastest BIOS i5 4590 2 x 4GB G.Skill Trident X DDR3 @ 2400/1.65 V (XMP) a) With every CPU voltage and voltage option set to Auto, it sometimes gets through without errors, sometimes does not, b) Any change whatsoever to any voltage option - vcore, LLC mode, Adaptive/Override, anything - will pretty much guarantee a fail, c) Running both sticks in dual channel might give one error per test pass, but either stick on its own will give NINE errors per test pass. Given that Memtest itself warns during Test 13 that memory may be vulnerable to high frequency bit flips, is this error anything that will manifest in a Windows environment? If so, what can I do about it? What's causing it? Board, CPU, memory? Many thanks, M. formatting lost, for some reason!
 
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You are fine, this is a common test that fails for some people and is caused by charge leakage. Only way to fix this is to buy new modules -that may also have the problem- or replace them with EEC ram (which is not supported by your cpu/not needed)

Just ignore the test fault, you will be fine
 
Reading some of the stuff online suggests it's a) common to four out of five memory sticks, and b) a hugely contrived, one-in-a-billion scenario in everyday use, so that eases my mind a bit. I've tried locking all the memory timings in manually and dropping the command rate to 1 (from 2, for some reason) to see if that makes a difference.
 
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