BonzaiDuck
Lifer
I swear I saw this.
Let us say that someone -- I-won't-say-who . . . decided to give me an OCZ DDR Booster for Christmas. Maybe somebody suggested he write a card for the package that read "To Bonzai, from Baby Jesus", but the family prevailed against that idea as crossing the boundary into irreverence. And let's suppose that I got it installed in a few minutes, and I kicked up my actual memory voltage to 2.95 after setting the motherboard to its own maximum of 2.85V.
The three voltage rails were previously adjusted on the PSU so that variation from spec is only a few thousandths of a volt, or under 1% of spec and well within the usual tolerance.
Booting to XP, I noticed that my PRIME95 temperature is between 1 and 2C lower. My idle temperature is almost 2C or approximately 3F less than previously.
Checking the voltages in ASUS PROBE, one notices how the voltages are stabilized, with a tendency toward the minimum difference with the spec being observed over many more consecutive seconds than any other and different voltage reading.
Summary: I raised my VDIMM voltage by a 1/10th of a volt. My temperatures went down, and memory stability and voltage stabilities all seemed improved so much that you really notice it.
Nifty gadget, folks.
Let us say that someone -- I-won't-say-who . . . decided to give me an OCZ DDR Booster for Christmas. Maybe somebody suggested he write a card for the package that read "To Bonzai, from Baby Jesus", but the family prevailed against that idea as crossing the boundary into irreverence. And let's suppose that I got it installed in a few minutes, and I kicked up my actual memory voltage to 2.95 after setting the motherboard to its own maximum of 2.85V.
The three voltage rails were previously adjusted on the PSU so that variation from spec is only a few thousandths of a volt, or under 1% of spec and well within the usual tolerance.
Booting to XP, I noticed that my PRIME95 temperature is between 1 and 2C lower. My idle temperature is almost 2C or approximately 3F less than previously.
Checking the voltages in ASUS PROBE, one notices how the voltages are stabilized, with a tendency toward the minimum difference with the spec being observed over many more consecutive seconds than any other and different voltage reading.
Summary: I raised my VDIMM voltage by a 1/10th of a volt. My temperatures went down, and memory stability and voltage stabilities all seemed improved so much that you really notice it.
Nifty gadget, folks.
