Volt allowed for Dominator 8500C5?

[kuailan]

I just have a question, now as I understand it the dominator 8500C5 only has a rating of 2.1v. Is it possible to up the voltage? now I know it may void the warranty (and it's not I am going to do it, I dont even use vcore above 1.35) I have seen people doing more than 2.1v for the ram. They said as long as you have active cooling on. Now I believed the dominator does come with the fan. Supposed you upped to 2.2v...will the RAM survived with the fan on?? or it will be like KFC? :D:

[DerekT]

I just have a question, now as I understand it the dominator 8500C5 only has a rating of 2.1v. Is it possible to up the voltage? now I know it may void the warranty (and it's not I am going to do it, I dont even use vcore above 1.35) I have seen people doing more than 2.1v for the ram. They said as long as you have active cooling on. Now I believed the dominator does come with the fan. Supposed you upped to 2.2v...will the RAM survived with the fan on?? or it will be like KFC? :D:

 

Good question and since you are in the Enthusiast section I will give you the enthusiast answer. Voltage AND Heat kills silicon and their substrates. The maximum voltage is given as a warranted value. If you are careful to be judicious with the addition of voltages and if you actively cool the concurrent thermal increase then an addition of a +.1v or +.2v will be fine. However, you have to find if that increase actually gives you a worthwhile value in either bandwidth speed increase or timing decrease. Some of the newest DRAM in DDR2 is not really worthwhile of additional voltage increases for the tiny amount of bandwidth increase. DDR3 is another component entirely and this is where the enthusiast community is playing at this time. DDR2 has passed any R&D so there will be no great overclocking DRAM left. The days of the Micron D9's is over for DDR2 and 2GB modules have little overclocking headroom left due to extreme binning procedures.