Low Voltage Causing Less than Stellar Performance?

[octopus41092]

I have 2 x Patriot 1GB DDR2 800 RAM. It's got 4-4-4-12 timings but it supposedly runs at 2.1V. Now my motherboard is an ASUS M2N-E SLI but the memory only supports up to 1.9V. Now other than causing this to run at 5-5-5-15 would it have any other effects on the speed of the memory? I'm wondering this because I just recently ran PCMark2002 on this and a laptop that I have has DDR2 533 with 4-4-4-12 timings but it's G.Skill brand and I scored lower on my desktop than the laptop did. My computer is faster in every other way by a lot but for some reason I did worse in memory. I scored 12161 whereas the laptop scored 13239. So, does anyone know why this might have happened and if the voltage is a likely suspect?

 

[z1ggy]

I am not 100% certain on this.. but If I could relate it to a cpu..If you increased the voltage on your cpu and nothing else..would that make it faster? No you would have to raise and fsb and you consequently raise the voltage as well because the increased speed requires more power. So hopefully my analogy is correct in the way I am thinking about this logically, but octo I cannot give you an exact reason as to why your situation is occuring. What about your processor speeds? If you think the voltage is the cause though..just go into your BIOS and overvolt the Vram up to 2.1 and rerun pcmark and see if you get a difference.