Corsair RAM Voltage Settings !

Tysonator · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:02

Hi, i am not sure if this question is related to my BSOD ! ?

The PC Spec is
MoBo ASUS A7N8X-E vr 2.0
CPU AMD XP3000+
RAM Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2
HDD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 160GB SATA 8MB Cache

i had replaced my original TwinMoss 512MB of RAM with corsair.
The manufacturer states that it can run at 2.75volts as it is aggressive RAM
Howevere my MoBo settings only go in .10 increments, not .05
So i am running the RAM at 2.7volts !
Can i run it at 2.8volts or is this harmful ! ? :eek:

The Corsair RAM comes with enclosed heat case over the RAM chips.
See Overcolckers RAM page, product reference (MY-079-CS)

many thanks

Stupido · 2 Mar 2006 at 22:32

according to corsair you can run them at up to 2.9 beyond that you got no warranty .post on the corsair forums for confirmation . they are very helpfull

Tysonator · 5 Mar 2006 at 12:56

Thanks Stupido,
have you a link for the Corsair forum please ?
I will indeed check out the 2.9v issue.
I take it that running at 2.8 or 2.9v will increase the performance of the RAM !?

Larok · 5 Mar 2006 at 14:39

imo only if you need to do it to achieve and stabilize an overclock.

Tysonator · 5 Mar 2006 at 22:37

It is not for an OverClock issue.
I was having problems with Blue Screen of Death, which i thought might be related to the voltage of the 2GB Corsair RAM.
I thought that maybe it was hungry for power and was not performing !
I have have increased my paging file space on the C Hard drive to 3GB, so i hope this was the problem. As it was set at 760 MB when i was using 512MB of RAM, and was still to the value after i fitted the corsair 2GB.
So i will run it for a while and see what happens.

Street · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:55

Have you tried running memtest on the RAM to see if it throws up any errors? If it doesn't then you can probably look elsewhere to find the cause of your problem.

JamesUK · 6 Mar 2006 at 18:59

i beleive this memory is best run at 2.75 not overclocked

ted34 · 6 Mar 2006 at 19:32

I have the same ram and it runs memtest error free at 210mhz, 2.6v with timings of 2,3,2,5 1t. I might have just got lucky with this set though but worth a shot. The tighter timings help on the a64

Stupido · 7 Mar 2006 at 17:59

theres a link from their home page sorry but i cant post a link as it might be considered against the rules of OCuk forums to do so

Admiral Huddy · 10 Mar 2006 at 09:08

running the corsair at 2.8v is fine if your BIOS won't allow anything between 2.7 and 2.8.

Junk · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:04

i have this ram and find it more stable at 2.7 than 2.8

with an XP i have not been able to overclock the fsb more than a few mhz inside the 2-2-2-5 timings. i prefer to keep the lower latency though rather than loosen them and increase the FSB.

Tysonator · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:23

Thanks Huddy, i will try the voltage at 2.8v for a while.
I have change the paging file size on the hard drive 1.5 times more than my RAM of 2GB. So 3GB of paging size seems to have stopped the BSOD at the moment. As i have not had any thing since i changed the Paging file !

I let you knoe what happens