Voltage and performance
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thealmightyone
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Dropping voltage back down to stock will dramatically increase it's lifespan.
When ocing many simply rush in rasing the voltage settings without realizing that some memory will run hot if that is kept constant. It's one thing to very briefly see where hardwares will go before losing integrity and then bringing them down to a stable setting.
For constant use keeping the voltages reasonable while bringing up the memory clock on the board(fsb) will see better results. The key to success with any ocing is finding that best stable condition. A small jump by .1v steps is often done to see a gain while gaming and even that was only a few upto 2.6 with some brief increase to 2.7v and not higher.
For constant use keeping the voltages reasonable while bringing up the memory clock on the board(fsb) will see better results. The key to success with any ocing is finding that best stable condition. A small jump by .1v steps is often done to see a gain while gaming and even that was only a few upto 2.6 with some brief increase to 2.7v and not higher.
Jet
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He's using DDR, which runs at higher voltages than DDR2.
If you can run it at 2.5V, you may get some errors occasionally, but it shouldn't be a big deal. It will run cooler, though you might have some stability issues. If you don't have any stability issues, then by all means keep it as low as possible.
The matched pair of Corsair xms series 512mb dimms were oced upto 2.7v on the old build and didn't see any gain and was simply dropped back to the 2.5v setting. Without heat shields at least if not memory coolers installed running memory oced with the voltage raised is likely to see problems come up mainly from the higher temps seen.