Safe experimental Voltage for memory

[keenan]

HI everyone

I have a 2 x 1024 DDR2 1100 CL5 MRam kit

Bought them as a value dual channel kit rated at 1066 CL5. when looking at CPU-Z it gives me the following:

I can tighten the timings to 4-4-4-12 @ 1066 / 5-5-5-18 @ 1200...both of these at 2.25V.. what would be safe Voltages just for benching...? I have akasa copper ramsinks on both modules and even at running 2.25V they dont get hot at all

[The Legend]

I've had plenty of kits fry at 2.25 vDimm with active cooling. I wouldn't push it much past 2.3 for extended periods of time, but it also depends on the ICs of the RAM.

Some love voltage and some don't

[ChaosMinionX]

Dont go past 2.3v for 24/7 (some would even say that is too high) But most DDR2 can withstand the punishment, if it comes down to small differences in clocks and you have a decision to run lower clock better timings say DDR2 1000 4-4-4-12 2.2v (not saying it will do that, but for sake of comparison) or 1100 5-5-5-15 2.3v go with the lower clock and voltages for 24/7.


Hope that makes sense.