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In case you're dual booting - Windows also has a memory diagnostic tool. This did identify my RAM as broken almost immediately, while Memtest reported everything OK after a full scan of several hours. As I only knew Memtest back then it took me weeks to find why my PC was constantly randomly crashing, until I learned of that.
But that was about 2 years ago, so maybe Memtest did improve since then? (Or maybe I had some very weird behaving RAM and finding it with other tools was just pure luck...)
Did you set different timings while you were in Windows? Looks like MemSet can do this. I would assume not though.
But, yeah, thank you for mentioning that memory tool in the OS. Had no clue it even existed.