Ram volts too high?

musicman53 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:50

Geil Ultra
PC2-6400 DDR2-800MHz

CAS 4-4-4-12

Available in 1GB & 2GB Dual Channel Kit

Hand-picked BGA 64Mx8 Chips

240pin, Non-ECC, Un-Buffered DIMM

Racing-Orange Aluminum Heat Spreader

Working Voltage: 1.8v ~ 2.3v

Seems I have it set to 2.10v instead of 1.8v
Been like that for months after I swapped back to Geil from Crucial Ballistix.

95thrifles · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:19

Its within the range so you should be fine, but you could try lowering it and see if your system remains stable, if it isnt just put it back up to last stable voltage

Kennysevenfold · 3 Jan 2009 at 19:29

its its running fine why start messing with it.?

its within the range so i would just leave it mate

RJC · 3 Jan 2009 at 20:10

I needed to run my Geil Ram at 2.1v as I kept getting BSOD.

musicman53 · 4 Jan 2009 at 16:59

RJC said:
I needed to run my Geil Ram at 2.1v as I kept getting BSOD.

I set it to 1.8 and the pc would not boot...........
had to reset the cmos and put my Ballistix back in.
The Geil is maked as being 2.1v and not 1.8.
Time for some different ram I think.

Cob · 4 Jan 2009 at 19:28

It needs 2.1v to run at 800mhz 4-4-4-12.

It should be able to run at 800mhz or lower @ 1.8v using timings of 5-5-5-18 or looser.

Richie P · 5 Jan 2009 at 01:28

Cob said:
It needs 2.1v to run at 800mhz 4-4-4-12.

It should be able to run at 800mhz or lower @ 1.8v using timings of 5-5-5-18 or looser.

Correcto.

At 2.2v you should be able to get to around 900-920Mhz 4-4-4-12

Nothing wrong with 2.1-2.2v with DDR2 as long as you've got good case airflow on something over the RAM.