increase I/O voltage = increased stability?

[ingenue007]

i just got my mushkin ram today and have been overclocking again (isn't it so addictive?)

anyhow before i ran at 10x103 and CPU FSB +1 for 1043. anything higher would NEVER be stable. I/O voltage was 3.3

well today i've been trying a bunch of different of FSBs. wanted to reach the magical 110x9.5 but it was always unstable. well for some reason i decided to change the I/O voltage to 3.4 and it is now running (no crashes yet)

so does I/O voltage really increase stability? should i go higher to 3.6 if it is unstable. i remember my abit BF6 had the default at 3.5v.

oh also increasing I/O v increses voltage to the RAM rt? will it damage the RAM?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

increasing i/o voltage is similiar to overvoltaging your cpu, except for ram, and other system components.

It likely does degrade the lifetime of ram, but by very slim margins. And sometimes, increasing i/o voltage increases the ram's ability to be overclocked.


Mike

 

[HellRaven]

In a word - yes. I have a Duron 600 and Abit mobo and my chip wasn't stable at 1030mhz. So I bumped the I/O voltage up and it stabilized. I don't like pushing it so hard so I lowered the settings. Anyway, I wouldn't push it too high.