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Basically intel is advising all motherboard makers to put a notice on their Mboard that ram voltage higher than 1.65 v puts cpu at higher risk of being damaged although they do not give specific reasons why.

If I sound harsh, it's because you've, three times now, repeated something that makes zero sense. Intel is not doing what you're claiming they are. DDR2, typically, runs at 1.8 volts. Intel knows this, board makers/bios writers know this and memory manufactures surely know what they're producing. Dram voltage is independent of cpu voltage. You board, my board, everyone's board is able to deliver two distinctly different voltages to the cpu and the RAM. In short, as I eluded to ealier, it's you who's misreading whatever it is you're reading. If you could provide a link that to what you're reading, I could, perhaps, help clear this up for you?

1.6 volts will kill your cpu. Straight up. Electromigration, at 1.6 volt, given your 45nm core, will just flat out kill you. There's no other way for me to say this.

Hey Fumz, he's talking about the new Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) MOBO's, isn't he? And the 1.6 refers to memory modules of which there aren't any yet.

To be honest, I have no clue what he's talking about? I'll worry about i7's when i7's are available for purchase. However, i7's will use DDR3 in triple channel. If Intel is saying that it can't handle modules that use more than 1.6 volts, then that's sort of shocking considering DDR3 "usually" runs at anywhere from 1.5 to 1.8 volts. That's a lot of IC's they're not working with?

Quote "Nehalem does promise to be a processor to look out for, it would be Intel's next installment, post the successful Core 2 series processors. This time however, Intel made a core modification with the way the system handles memory. The Bloomfield processors house a massive 192-bit wide memory controller for supporting tri-channel DDR3 memory. It however was found that the controller could bring in limitations to the DIMM voltages that the system could support.

The retail version of ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition motherboard was unboxed by XFastest. Being the retail product, as usually, it comes with precautionary labels attached to parts of the motherboard. The one that covers the 6 DDR3 DIMM slots reads: According to Intel CPU SPEC, DIMMs with voltage setting over 1.65V may damage the CPU permanently. We recommend you to install DIMMs with voltage setting below 1.65V."