The ram i bought says 1.6v but my motherboard says 1.5v.

 

Whats the consequences of throwing that 1.6v ram in the slots of the 1.5v mobo?

The manual that came with your motherboard should contain a list of RAM that is compatible with your board. Check that to see if it's compatible.

 

What mobo and ram do you have?

 

The motherboard would normally compensate for this.

Nothing should technically happen, as the RAM wants to draw 1.6v whereas the mobo can only provide 1.5v the only thing that may happen is it won't run as fast as advertised, nothing will blow up though.

Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 DDR3 GLan

 

and

 

G Skill 4G(2x2G) DDR3 1600Mhz PC12800 CL8(CL8D-4GBRM)

Yeah mate, you are fine. It just won't get as much juice. No ka-blamo will occur.

sweet, just don't want to cook a mobo.

 

is there anyway to up the dimm slot voltage? would this cook the board?

http://gskill.com/products.php?index=221

 

my mobo isn't listed there.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/MemorySupport/mb_memory_ga-790xta-ud4.pdf

 

There ya go. Like already mentioned, you should be fine though.

 

Check the RAM Module P/N with the pdf list I provided. The Module P/N should be on the RAm packaging or on the RAM itself.

sweet, just don't want to cook a mobo.

 

is there anyway to up the dimm slot voltage? would this cook the board?

 

It's a gigabyte board so pretty much everything is changeable.

 

This review stipulates you could push it to 2.445V if you wanted [but you wouldn't]

 

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/mainboard/gigabyte-790xta-ud4-790x-p2.html

 

Edit: It'll be under "M.I.T" or Intelligent Tweaker or something in the BIOS, listed as DRAM voltage.

Edited April 19, 201015 yr by Husker

Yeah checked it, not listed... i fail at picking computer parts.

 

Thanks for the help though.

try http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php.

it will tell you amongst other things what speed your ram is running at and its actual voltages.

Yeah checked it, not listed... i fail at picking computer parts.

 

Thanks for the help though.

 

Nah I think you just haven't found it...

 

http://www.overclock.net/amd-motherboards/574608-official-gigabyte-ga-ma790x-t-ud4p.html

yeah but everything else i've read is that its for an intel chipset.

 

basically all i wanna know is which a few people have already posted no, is if shes going to be cactus as soon as a i turn it on.

my RAM is 1.65v and my MB is 1.5, its fine.

Edited April 19, 201015 yr by f00bear

yeah but everything else i've read is that its for an intel chipset.

 

basically all i wanna know is which a few people have already posted no, is if shes going to be cactus as soon as a i turn it on.

 

No, it's always ok to run too little power to a device, worst case scenario is that it doesn't work. Running too much (like 240v into a 110v device) results in some unpleasant smells and equipment that will not function again.