Mixing RAM Voltage

[ProOctopus]

So yesterday I posted a topic saying that my friend can give me some more RAM:

 

 

The problem was that they were two different brands, I was told this okay but I had to make sure the voltage was the same.

The HyperX Savage is 1.6 and the Corsair Vengeance is 1.65.

Can these still work together?

Should I put the HyperX RAM up to 1.65?

Help please!

 

Cheers.

[Benji_w]

I've had my RAM at 1.7v for a long time, you'll be fine voltage wise but in my experience of setting mix matched ram up with an AMD rig, I had to set the timings up a little slower.

[ProOctopus]

1 minute ago, Benji_w said:

I've had my RAM at 1.7v for a long time, you'll be fine voltage wise but in my experience of setting mix matched ram up with an AMD rig, I had to set the timings up a little slower.

so should I put my HyperX savage to 1.65? so it matches to Corsair RAM?

[Benji_w]

1 minute ago, ProOctopus said:

so should I put my HyperX savage to 1.65? so it matches to Corsair RAM?

Yes it will be fine, Like said, I've done 1.7v with my savage kit with no ill effect.

[Narnash]

normaly you could go with both on 1,65V but possibly the vengeance run even on 1,6V.  It's a bit like overcloaking CPUs not every RAM is the same and if a manufacturer write that thy run on 1,65V than they have to run on 1,65V but could run with lower voltages also.

 

If it doesn't work the pc would have stability issues or not even boot up, you doesn't brake your RAM if you over or undervolt these (if you modify your MB and run your RAM than with 3V+  than they will burn in sparkels  

[Benji_w]

2 minutes ago, Narnash said:

normaly you could go with both on 1,65V but possibly the vengeance run even on 1,6V.  It's a bit like overcloaking CPUs not every RAM is the same and if a manufacturer write that thy run on 1,65V than they have to run on 1,65V but could run with lower voltages also.

 

If it doesn't work the pc would have stability issues or not even boot up, you doesn't brake your RAM if you over or undervolt these (if you modify your MB and run your RAM than with 3V+  than they will burn in sparkels  

The ratings on ram are what they're tested at so they will run at those settings, if you run them at the XMP setting then lower the voltage you're probably making your system unstable. If the sticks are rated at 1.65v then I would set the voltage to 1.65v or higher and enjoy my system.

[Narnash]

1 minute ago, Benji_w said:

The ratings on ram are what they're tested at so they will run at those settings, if you run them at the XMP setting then lower the voltage you're probably making your system unstable. If the sticks are rated at 1.65v then I would set the voltage to 1.65v or higher and enjoy my system.

Thats right and for ProOctopus it will be easier to running both on 1,65V but if he like to play around to find a better setting he can do that, I only wanted to say that the settings on RAM aren't chiseled in stone and you can get better results if you moify it. The real topic of my post was that if he play with the RAM settings they won't blow everything except he modify anything like crazy on every part in his system.

 

It's a try and error test, and in the most cases an XMP is near the sweet spot for this RAM, but like in the CPU manufacturer process you can play a bit with the settings to get better results 

 

 

 

[Benji_w]

Just now, Narnash said:

Thats right and for ProOctopus it will be easier to running both on 1,65V but if he like to play around to find a better setting he can do that, I only wanted to say that the settings on RAM aren't chiseled in stone and you can get better results if you moify it. The real topic of my post was that if he play with the RAM settings they won't blow everything except he modify anything like crazy on every part in his system.

 

It's a try and error test, and in the most cases an XMP is near the sweet spot for this RAM, but like in the CPU manufacturer process you can play a bit with the settings to get better results 

 

 

 

I'm not disputing that, but it has to be known that a bad overclock on RAM can corrupt a hard drive or SSD in an instant. I don't recommend overclocking ram without sufficient RAM stress testing tools.

[Narnash]

17 minutes ago, Benji_w said:

The ratings on ram are what they're tested at so they will run at those settings, if you run them at the XMP setting then lower the voltage you're probably making your system unstable. If the sticks are rated at 1.65v then I would set the voltage to 1.65v or higher and enjoy my system.

 

Overcloakin anything is everytime a small step by step OC and I don't had problems whith dying hardware so far, maybe I should use my small Ubuntu-Trouble-SSD for any overcloaking the next time. (thanks for the info)