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[Drwho?]

Yeah but Drwho? is an extreme ES tester and he's saying that no one should be running these things over 1.8v.

Ok, let s clarify this for ever ... if you run the voltage of the Dimm highter, you will impact the life span of your processor, it is like every overclocking, it is the non obvious impact.
Now, if you choose to reduce the life to few weeks by going crazy on the vDIMM, it is your choice, just do not complain about it

Now, I did run up to 2.2Volts, being carefull, just be aware that transistors are like light switch, if you take a light switch of 110Volts, and make it commute thousands of time with 220 volts, the switch will burn out ... that's what you get when you OC ... and now look at the amplitude of regular OC.
Most of the people take a CPU that have based Voltage around 1.1 to 1.3 (depending of brand and model) and they overclock it to 1.4, 1.5, the best OC masters do 1.9 to 2.0 Volts... Higher, you got to mod the vreg.
now, people see 1.5Volts, and many are talking about 2.0 to 2.2Volts for the vDimm, this is a higher amplitude than what the masters of OC do on the CPU Voltage, so, the recommandation we are putting out is simple ... 1.65volts is 10% ... if you go higher, don t get to 70% directly, go there slowly, and if you do , you ll see that with 1.8Volts, you ll get between 2000Mhz to 2200Mhz depending of your luck on your dimms.

So, there is not problem of vDimm, we are just warning because it is new, and I don t want a young kid spending all of his saving for his dream CPU to finish into a because the guy did not read the


The force is strong with Core i7, , and I want every body to enjoy it as it is , without silly mistake to spoil the party.