1.65 v memory on a 1.5 v motherboard

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bonez23

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First of all here are my hardware specs:

AMD A10 Series A10-7870K 3.9 GHz
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3
Sea Sonic S12II-520Bronze

This question has been raised several times, but I just want to hear the answers again with my specs in mind. The memory that I just bought is the:

Vengeance® Pro Series — 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 DRAM 2133MHz C9 Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2B2133C9)

It says 1.65v tested voltage. So my question is, will running this memory on my motherboard damage the motherboard or vice versa or any other component on my PC.
 
Solution
try to manualy set up the memory and not use the xmp ? if you still feel a concern rma the memory you got and go with a 1.5 v kit ?

with any overclocking its a risk but then that chip supports 2133 native , so that speed should not be a issue ?

''According to JEDEC,[3]:111 1.575 volts should be considered the absolute maximum when memory stability is the foremost consideration, such as in servers or other mission-critical devices. In addition, JEDEC states that memory modules must withstand up to 1.80 volts[a] before incurring permanent damage, although they are not required to function correctly at that level''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM


I guess I would insure you got the latest board bios and reseat the...
should be fine then. I'd look at what tradesman said -- I really don't see running the 1.65 as any issue

it was done here ?? '' The Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB 2133MHz memory
image: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
kit was set to XMP 1.3 memory profile settings, which is 1.65v with 10-11-11-30 2T memory timings
Read more at http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-a10-7870k-godavari-apu-review_169704/2#3Bq7SjpVUWzugt3B.99

as I said above it should only be a matter of setting the profile

try this memtest?
http://www.memtest.org/

i don't see the voltage hurting anything as far as damaging things - but there could be anything at play as far as not passing memtest's -

hard to say . you could exchange the memory you got for something in the 1.5v range ?? then it could give the same result??

also the memtest your using may not fully support the newer chip as well built in windows use a updated one like i linked and check it compatibility for newer hardware

if you look at the ''change log you maybe out of luck for that Godavari support ?? and that's why your getting the errors and all ??

these guys don't tell you whats supported at all ??
http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

found it
http://www.memtest86.com/support/ver_history.htm

so from all that you can see its not 100% goof proof and something can give false errors ?