[Scgeeks] Re: RAM voltages

[Joe Gill]

Wasn't Crucial's application able to 'sense' the motherboard?
Did you try that tool, or just go through the menus?

"Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> Hi nerdettes & nerdudes,
>
> Got a little problem with RAM specs and Crucial's a black hole, as are the 
> ms HW AND SW newsgroups I've asked on.  So maybe someone here has an 
> answer; wouldn't be the first time<g> spamcop's come thru for me:
>
> I need to add RAM to a Walmart "special".  It's a 'Balance Digital 
> Electronics' machine which means "Dig like hell for any information on it 
> about anything".
>  The currently installed RAM, according to Sys Info and SIW is an SSTL 
> 2.5V RAM, but the only RAM I can find anywhere says it's 2.6V.
>
>   So, the questions:
>    Does it matter?
>   Will 2.6V work fine where it says SSTL 2.5V is currently installed?
>   Would one of each work together or do they have to both be the same?
>
> It's pretty common RAM otherwise:  PC3200-400MHz, non-ecc, non EPP, etc. 
> But that voltage is giving me fits trying to work out.
> What IS the 2.5 and 2.6V??  Is it a threshold?  Is it a level where, say, 
> low is guaranteed to be anything below 2.6 (or 2.5) V?  I ask because, 
> near as I can tell, the RAM supply itself is 3.3V, so ... 2.xV sounds like 
> a threshold or hysterisis area.
>
> It's "cute", actually:  the label on the front says Intel 3.0 GHz/XP Home, 
> and inside you find a 2.4GHz processor running at 2.4 GHz, using 3.066 GHz 
> RAM, with a cpu cooler for up to 2.2 GHz, and 256 Meg of RAM. And the cpu 
> fan blows the heat out of the heat sink and right into the intake of the 
> fan for the switching power supply!  I took the cpu temp from 68C down to 
> 41C just by putting in a copper heatsink and properly sized fan, plus a 
> piece of foil to direct theheat toward the case vents instead of into the 
> psu.  No WONDER Walmart specials are sooo, special! Holy shit, anyone 
> could sell cheap machines too building them that way! Apparently there's 
> dumb and then there's Walmart a few rungs below that. I'd hate to ever 
> meet those Balance engineers!  What morons they must be.
>
> Regards,
>
> Twayne
>