RAM Voltage

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#1

Hi all.

I have a question that has been bothering me for the longest time. So I have a kit of 2x4GB of RAM around that was given to me, but it says it is 1.65v. Every time I ask if it is safe I get a 50/50 splint in answeres... so basicly what is the difference? Can it dammage my other parts?

Thanks for your time.

#2

You're fine - unlikely they will damage anything. They can probably run perfectly well at 1.5V, anyway. What speed are they?

#3

They are Patriot Memory Division 2 Viper Xtreme DDR3 1600Mhz.

Would i need to mess with the bios to lower the voltage? Because i've never done something like that

#4

I don't see any problems with that ram.  Usually it's just plug and play.  You can try loading the defaults for the RAM if anything's wrong, which is quite unlikely.

#5

Thanks for the answere. I was just worried because I asked the same questin a while ago on some other forum and people started freaking out saying that was above what intel recomended and it was going to fry my cpu.

#6

Yeah.... No.  Your CPU and RAM have different voltage settings.  My old machine had DDR2 ram that ran at 2.1v and a CPU that was around 1.2v.  They're independent if we're talking about voltage.