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Why is lower dram voltage making my build more stable?

I overclocked my cpu to reach a stable state first, then when enabling the xmp for the rams I encounter instability. Weirdly, increasing dram voltage(to 1.36~1.38) only makes it worse, but decreasing it to 1.34 actually makes it stable. Why is that? Does it have something to do with my vccio or vccsa settings? Any ideas?

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Overvoltage is a thing you know, I know my Hynix A Die does not like too much voltage, while Samsung B-Die doesn't mind a lot of voltage.

An example was I upped the voltage a bit, had it on 3200Mhz, it was stable for a good 30 minutes then crash, there's a near hard limit for some dies.

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5 minutes ago, AkatsukiKun said:

Overvoltage is a thing you know, I know my Hynix A Die does not like too much voltage, while Samsung B-Die doesn't mind a lot of voltage.

An example was I upped the voltage a bit, had it on 3200Mhz, it was stable for a good 30 minutes then crash, there's a near hard limit for some dies.

The ram has a xmp profile with 1.35v. So I thought 1.35~1.38v shouldn't be too much for it to handle even though I overclocked my cpu. Ram being stable at 1.34v certainly surprised me. I'm also wondering if over heating vrm is the real culprit .

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That's kinda odd to happen at voltage this low (expecting more around 1.6v for Hynix stuff), but more voltage doesn't always mean better stability indeed.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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