Birgit wrote:Thank you for your enquiry. The mainboard GA-7VAXFS supports DDR266 and DDR333 Memory modules.
The standardized operating voltage for these modules is 2.5V.
Every other voltage like 2.55V, 2.6V or higher are not conform to the standards which are defined by the JEDEC for DDR200 till DDR333.
Please keep in mind that not every costumer who buys a complete computer system is well known with settings which allow to use computer parts outside the specifications. Whenever such costumer changes the operating voltage of standard DDR modules to 2.7V he would not understand why damages which are caused by this setting are not covered by warranty. That is the reasons why a mainboard which is used in a FSC computers has not got functions which are necessary for over clocking or the like. We beg for your understanding, because we are unfortunately not able to give you another answer.
Birgit
So you actually don't know what would happend, or if I am, at all able to install RAM that needs more voltage than the standard 2.5V?
I can inform you that I am currently running Kingston HyperX RAM (CL 2)
that needs 2.6V, they seem to run just fine and they are a lot faster than my old ram.
Fujitsu-Siemens could choose to make a BIOS that enables the overclocking capabillities by informing the customer that if the component is overclocked it is no longer covered by any warrenty (most of us know this allready
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It's rather sad to have a fujitsu-siemens computer with a AMD Athlon XP2800+ Barthon CPU and not being able to overclock it, this CPU is ment to be overclocked, it has some of the best overclocking capabillities ever (besides the mobile version)
Anyway, thanks for your answer, nothing else to do than buy a new mobo.