max DDR3 voltage for phenom 2 and athlon 2 CPUs

[faxon]

my understanding thus far is that all the DDR3 kits certified for phenom 2 and athlon 2 uses the same voltage standards for DDR3 that the core Ix parts use. am i correct in believing this? thus far all the people i have seen using DDR3 kits with phenom 2 systems were using the new lower voltage kits, but i have been having complaints from customers saying that the memory we (we being another employee at my work) sold them fried their CPU and/or board, and i wanted to confirm that these chips were in fact damaged by the (1.9v) DDR3 we sold them. this was across various boards, from 3 different customers, and all said that replacing the dead component and the DDR3 with 1.5-1.65v DDR3 fixed the problem. i also had a customer call me last night and thank me after i stopped another employee from selling them 1.9v DDR3 with their chip, cause they found similar reports online. now, when i went to go and find where i had read this information prior (it was in an AT review i thought), i could find no such information. was i wrong to assume that you needed the same low voltage memory for these chips that you need with core Ix parts? if so, then why is the higher voltage stuff we sold frying peoples stuff? the CPUs were installed correctly and the memory wasnt jammed in backwards.

 

[faxon]

bumpage. would really like an answer to this

 

[Patrickz0rs]

This probably won't help much but with an AM3 board I would never go over 1.65.

 

[RobberBaron]

Motherboards generally have a QVL for memory. For example the Asus M4A79t Deluxe is able to use 1.9v memory from several different vendors. This seems more like someone didnt investigate what there mobo supported.

 

[faxon]

glad i was at least able to get something more to go on. i pretty much drew a complete blank outside a bunch of overclocking tests all using memory rated for 1.65v, OVed up to 1.68-1.7v in some cases but nothing above that, and some complaints of components (be it memory controllers, boards, or RAM) either failing or ceasing to work in their overclocked state without downclocking. i guess i will need to do a board by board check at some point when i remember and i have time. fortunately, at current time we have at most only a dozen boards which need to be checked, and doing so will be relatively easy, at least until we get more boards, or we fail to sell or vendor return the old XMS3 DHX 1.9v kits we still have, which are all return boxes now and will probably be kept on hand for at least another few months =/