Quote Originally Posted by Drwho? View Post
That is fairly easy ... statistically, transistors are suppose the transmit only electrons, this is how you design your semi conductor layers. when you increase the voltage, you increase the change to push an atom in its entire self instead of just a electron ... (Covalent collition) if you loose too many atoms ... say bye bye to the semi conductor layer ... then you just lost one of your transistor ...

simple, isn't it?
Ah yes, i get the fundamentals of electron transfer and such.

What i don't understand is this:
We have been running our CPUs at 1.4-1.5v and our RAM at 2.0-2.2v without problems.
Why does Nehalem have a problem running these RAM voltages? Is it because the CPU and RAM share the same voltage?