Quick Voltage Question..

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Hi folks,

I recently bought an i5 2500K and coupled it with a MSI Z68A-GD65 motherboard and 8GB of 1600MHz XMS3.

Fired everything up and the RAM was running at 1333MHz according to the BIOS. I turned on the XMP profile setting, which flipped the ram up to that lovely 1600MHz I paid for.

I then noticed however that the voltage to the RAM was set at 1.65V? Can I drop that to 1.5V? Upsides/downsides to running the ram at either voltage?

Thanks :)
 
That is indeed the ram, should have linked, sorry.

I'll just leave it at the XMP 1.65V then, thanks for clarifying.

Will this affect overclocking at all? I was hoping to take my CPU up around 4.5GHz.
 
I was going to use the following article as a basis for my overclock. Page 2 (see the link) mentions about half way down in the paragraph titled "Memory Voltage" that I should keep my ram voltage within 0.5V of the VCCIO in order to avoid long term damage to the CPU.

I presume that the lower the voltage gap the better? If my XMS3 can theoretically run at 1.5V, is that what I want to aim for when overclocking? If the 1.65V provides stability and no issues, I'll just stick with that..

EDIT: forgot the link..

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/2
 
Thanks for all the quick replies. Will have a go at overclocking tonight, and I'll use 1.5V for the ram.

I take it I'll have to disable the XMP setting in order to drop the voltage from 1.65V?
 
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