Prolonged use of DDR3 at stock voltage on Skylake can damage CPU says Intel

[colinmcr]

Thought I'd share this

Quote

"Intel Corp.’s latest “Skylake” processors officially support only DDR3L and DDR4 memory, but there are motherboards for the new chips that can also use DDR3. While the chips can work with previous-gen memory, prolonged usage of such dynamic random access memory (DRAM) can damage microprocessors, according to Intel."

Full story here

http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...emory-at-default-voltages-can-damage-skylake/

Source story from Tomshardware

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/skylake-memory-support,30185.html#xtor=RSS-181

 

[colinmcr]

I wonder when the reporter or tester who did the original story, did actually contact Intel? In his article he says, he spoke with Intel. We have no actual proof of that and surely the correct thing to do as a reporter is to quote from a named source.
The story then becomes like a Chinese whisper and becomes "offical" even though it may not actually be.

I searched all Intel press releases and news and could not find anything relating to this directly from Intel either.

So in this case, us end users read an article and take it as given (mostly). I have no opinion as to the validity of the claim, all I can do is share with my fellow enthusiast's in the hope that none of them suffer the fate of this "possible" flaw.
I'd certainly prefer to err on the side of caution than to ignore the possibility.