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talofaholbrook   03-11-2009 at 02:53:23 AM

I'm planning on buying these two together. How do I know if the 2.1 Volts of this RAM won't fry my motherboard? If it wont fry then will the RAM just run slow or not run at all?

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813121304
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227267

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theAnimal   03-11-2009 at 04:10:02 AM
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Why not get some better RAM?

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talofaholbrook   03-11-2009 at 03:41:40 PM
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Well, my board will only support 800 MHz PC2 6400. What other better RAM is out there that would be for my motherboard? How much volts does my board support?

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FlorinR   03-11-2009 at 04:10:59 PM
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It's not like the ram will "steal" voltage from MB... The voltages from the site are refering to the RAM and how much it needs for run at 4-4-4-12 and 800Mhz. You can buy a pair of module that don't even require that much. But if they need 2.1V you must set this in the BIOS. I have no ideea how is the BIOS of an Intel MB configured...for OC

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aford10   03-11-2009 at 04:40:38 PM
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The reapers are very good RAM. Those just require a little more power than some other chips. It won't fry your board or anything. When you get up into the higher voltage RAM, some boards have a hard time booting up. Some have no problem at all.

It just means you may need to tweak some of the settings in the bios.

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theAnimal   03-11-2009 at 09:58:00 PM
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talofaholbrook wrote :

Well, my board will only support 800 MHz PC2 6400. What other better RAM is out there that would be for my motherboard? How much volts does my board support?



Click the link in my previous post.

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Crashman   03-11-2009 at 10:41:18 PM
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talofaholbrook wrote :

I'm planning on buying these two together. How do I know if the 2.1 Volts of this RAM won't fry my motherboard? If it wont fry then will the RAM just run slow or not run at all?

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813121304
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227267



It's pretty simple: If you install that RAM, it will boot up at a slower speed. You'll have to increase speed manually in BIOS. But to get it stable at the higher speed, you'll probably need more voltage, and your Intel motherboard might not let you change the voltage.

So you end up paying for faster RAM, and using it as slower RAM. The first guy to respond left a link to these in his post:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231219

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grieve   03-11-2009 at 11:19:19 PM
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what he said ^ :)

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