Old build with skylake and high voltage RAM

[tyreal42a]

Let me just preface this by saying I'm not the most computer savvy person. But 18 months ago, I built my first PC. With a skylake Intel Core i5 6600 Quad Core LGA 1151 3.3 GHz CPU processor on a Gigabyte B150M-D3H DDR3 LGA 1151 motherboard and using G.Skill Ripjaws-X 8GB(2x 4GB) Memory Kit - PC3-17000 / DDR3-2133 - 240pin DIMM - CL 9-11-10-28-2N - 1.65v (F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM) as RAM.

Recently, I learned that apparently my RAM's voltage isn't supported and could actually be damaging my CPU. Is there some kind of test I can run? Should I be concerned? Should I do something about it like change the RAM? I have been using this setup for about a year and a half and it hasn't died, but after hearing about this, I'm wondering if it's still safe.

 

[Supahos]

Didn't you actually go into BIOS and set the ram to run at 1.65v (either manually or by enabling xmp? If not your ram is running at either 1333 or 1600 with horrible timings at 1.5v (too much still, but not as scary as 1.65v would be)

 

[tyreal42a]

Didn't you actually go into BIOS and set the ram to run at 1.65v (either manually or by enabling xmp? If not your ram is running at either 1333 or 1600 with horrible timings at 1.5v (too much still, but not as scary as 1.65v would be)

I don't believe I did that, no. I just plugged it in and haven't tinkered with it in any way.

 

[Supahos]

Okay so it's defaulted to 1.5 v then which is good., You might could try going into bios and setting up a little better performance or just drop voltage to something like 1.4v and getting closer to spec.

 

[photonboy]

1) First, you mean THIS: http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/

2) If you run CPU-Z it will tell you the details of frequency and voltage.

Google for, then download and run CPU-Z, then go to the "Memory" page to see what "DRAM frequency" it runs at. Let's assume it says "2133", then go to the "SPD" page and look a the bottom for the supported profiles.

If using 2133 then at the bottom it should say 1.65V. Then that's what you are using.

3) If using 1.65V then switch to another profile. I can't walk you through that as I'm not familiar with your UEFI (BIOS) but if you end up needing to tweak anything MANUALLY then note the values at the bottom of CPU-Z for the fastest profile that supports 1.5V.

(probably it's 1600MHz)

If default is 1333MHz I'd raise it up though.

 

[tyreal42a]

1) First, you mean THIS: http://wccftech.com/skylake-does-not-support-ddr3-damage-ddr3l-only/

2) If you run CPU-Z it will tell you the details of frequency and voltage.

Google for, then download and run CPU-Z, then go to the "Memory" page to see what "DRAM frequency" it runs at. Let's assume it says "2133", then go to the "SPD" page and look a the bottom for the supported profiles.

If using 2133 then at the bottom it should say 1.65V. Then that's what you are using.

3) If using 1.65V then switch to another profile. I can't walk you through that as I'm not familiar with your UEFI (BIOS) but if you end up needing to tweak anything MANUALLY then note the values at the bottom of CPU-Z for the fastest profile that supports 1.5V.

(probably it's 1600MHz)

If default is 1333MHz I'd raise it up though.

Thanks. The DRAM frequency says 800, though.

 

[Supahos]

800 is 1600 ddr means double data rate