larry moe 'n curly wrote:
By how much can the maximum absolute voltage of 2.3V for DDR2 DRAM
chips be exceeded? I don't intend to do it, but I have a motherboard
that lets the memoy voltage be set as high as 2.839V, and it's maker
says that's OK, although they won't guarantee against damage.


One way to get that info, is if the manufacturer writes up an
ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference) paper.
Sometimes, if they've done a new semiconductor process, the
details will be given in the paper, including the "real"
absolute max (i.e. the value that killed the device in the lab,
something akin to breakdown voltage). The only time I read and
compared such a value using a paper like that, it was
about 200mV above the datasheet value, which isn't much margin
at all (and that was for a non-Intel processor).

Or, you can look in an enthusiast forum, and see what they're up
to. Some Micron D9 tested at 2.51V. Try to find a thread
where they burned some up :-)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=121284

Paul