Performance RAM will damage your Nehalem

[bob saget]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/03/performance-ram-damage-nehalem

WE GOT WORD that Intel is adivising mobo-makers and memory vendors alike about their new X58+Core i7 combo and to abide to a strict 1.65V limit on memory voltages, beyond which there is the risk of burning out the CPU.

you can draw your own conclusions, but this is definitely not good......:headexplode:

[Bman212121]

Hmm, a quick peek through Newegg and it looks like stock voltage is 1.5V. There are some kits which can go as high as 2.0V like the Corsair DDR3-1800. So basically it sounds like the majority of ram will need too much voltage for nehalem. I bet Intel will gladly sell you an extreme edition processor which will be "special made" to handle the extra voltage. :lol:

[Heinz68]

Hmm, a quick peek through Newegg and it looks like stock voltage is 1.5V. There are some kits which can go as high as 2.0V like the Corsair DDR3-1800. So basically it sounds like the majority of ram will need too much voltage for nehalem. I bet Intel will gladly sell you an extreme edition processor which will be "special made" to handle the extra voltage. :lol:
Nehalem supports triple-channel memory.
The memory vendors are preparing such lower voltage high performance kits to be available before Nehalem launch. The extreme edition will use the same kits.

[Stoneyguy]

Why does memory voltage effect the CPU?

[nekrosoft13]

Why does memory voltage effect the CPU?

doesn't Nehalem have on-chip memory controller