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Originally Posted by ti20n 
The official spec for these chips is 1.5v + 5% max, i.e. 1.575v; incidentally, that is also the max Vdram officially supported by Intel (IvyB). So I'm personally quite comfortable with that voltage (but I also bumped vccsa/vccio by 5% to match, which from what I understand is important).
That said, many retail forms of these chips (e.g. GSkill Trident X) run them at 1.65v, although granted that's with heatspreaders. But someone suggested earlier: ~1.60v without active cooling on the RAMs, ~1.65v with a fan pointed at them, should be safe.

The official spec for these chips is 1.5v + 5% max, i.e. 1.575v; incidentally, that is also the max Vdram officially supported by Intel (IvyB). So I'm personally quite comfortable with that voltage (but I also bumped vccsa/vccio by 5% to match, which from what I understand is important).
That said, many retail forms of these chips (e.g. GSkill Trident X) run them at 1.65v, although granted that's with heatspreaders. But someone suggested earlier: ~1.60v without active cooling on the RAMs, ~1.65v with a fan pointed at them, should be safe.
Oh, okay. I thought the max specified was 1.5v. That's nice to know!
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Originally Posted by ericeod 
When running 4 or more modules, make sure to increase the tRFC. I noticed on the G.Skill 2600 ram using these ICs, the tRFC is like 209! I run tRFC of 148 when running 16Gb. Anyways, to give you an idea what timings G.Skill programs their Samsung 30nm chips to run at 2600, check out this link (courtesy of Da1Nonly):
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/ivy-bridge-ddr3_6.html

When running 4 or more modules, make sure to increase the tRFC. I noticed on the G.Skill 2600 ram using these ICs, the tRFC is like 209! I run tRFC of 148 when running 16Gb. Anyways, to give you an idea what timings G.Skill programs their Samsung 30nm chips to run at 2600, check out this link (courtesy of Da1Nonly):
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/ivy-bridge-ddr3_6.html
Yeah, I know that other manufacturers just re-brand them, and some run at higher volts. What sort of setting should I be putting my set on, and what exactly does it do?

























