Latency-changing side-effects

jcw122

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• Oct 1, 2004

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I know about how latencys work and all but i was just wondering...what are the side effects of changing the latencys? Does it make the RAM hotter? More voltage? Is it risky if u dont have sufficent cooling? anything else u think i should know? Thanks

 

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• Oct 1, 2004

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I am pretty sure that the only thing that affects ram temperatures is the voltage you put into it.

 

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jcw122

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• Oct 2, 2004

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so i can change my latencys real low with out having to worry about ne thing?

 

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• Oct 2, 2004

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its possible, that you memory starts creating errors, causing calculations to go wrong and windows to crash. And if you need more voltage to be stable at lower timings, you memory will go hotter.
you can't damage anything.. but your system could go instable..

 

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• Oct 12, 2004

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thanks lifthanger

 

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• Oct 13, 2004

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little addition, memory voltages up to 2.9V won't damage any DDR memory stick.
If you want 3.0V and higher you should start to worry about heat, but I don't think that's what you want to do.