Is 1.95v safe for an AM3 Board with a Phenom II 955?

Guitarman0 · 7 Jan 2010 at 19:14

I am looking at getting some OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 running at 1.95 volts with a Phenom II 955 and a Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4. Is this safe in the long run? If not, has anyone got any ideas for RAM that runs at 1600MHz with 4gb preferably as cheap as possible? Thanks.

blaineoliver · 7 Jan 2010 at 19:15

There is no voltage limit on am3 IMC, as far as i know. The issue is overvolting ram, are you overvolting the ram?

Guitarman0 · 7 Jan 2010 at 19:51

blaineoliver said:
There is no voltage limit on am3 IMC, as far as i know. The issue is overvolting ram, are you overvolting the ram?

nope, sorry for the amateur question. It was just that my friend who has an i7 thought it might be an issue but as it is not, many thanks.

blaineoliver · 7 Jan 2010 at 19:52

I7's do, so hes right to point it out

Guitarman0 · 7 Jan 2010 at 19:59

Thanks anyway

Mul · 7 Jan 2010 at 20:02

If I remember right, it was reported that Socket 754/939 AMD Athlon 64s would break at certain combinations of CPU and DDR voltages when paired with BH-5 RAM (These were 3.0V+). I don't think that this is an issue for any typical AM3 configurations, but just an interesting fact.