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Safe voltages and is it a good IMC?

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So since DDR5 prices are stupid im sticking with my DDR4 for longer. Pushed the frequency higher which meant upping voltage on the ram and cpu. The ram has active cooling as can be seen below (I used the VRM fan that came with the Mobo). Are these safe daily voltages? DRAM 1.56V SA 1.32V managed to get it down to 1.26V IO 1.3V is now 1.24V. IS this considered a decent IMC? I do have active cooling on the RAM, so if i try pushing to 4000MHZ and up the DRAM voltage to 1.6V is this too high and unsafe? I did post somewhere else but couldn't really answer my question.



 
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No idea about Intel IMC, but 1.6V for DDR4 seems absolutely mental to me! (I wouldn't have gone much past that on DDR3, let alone DDR4)
Sooo. I would say, not something I'd consider 'safe'
If I was gonna push it like that, I'd be running a 120mm fan straight over them (top down), not (what I assume is) a single 40mm fan over the top of them, especially over 4 DIMMs

Edit: If you're into benchmarking, or squeezibg every last ounce of performance out, then by all means crack on, but if you're gaming or using it for video/professional use, I'd just go with rated speeds/timings and try to reduce voltage/power if you can
 
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