Been thinking about upgrading my laptop memory. According to the memory checker CPUID-CPUZ, my laptop is currently running with a CL latency of 21 at 1.20 volts. If I drop down to CL's of 16, say for example using Crucial Ballistic memory, it looks like the voltage on the chips ups to 1.35.

Is this voltage increase due to the lower CL or are there motherboards that run at a higher voltage?

Do I have to stick with only chips that run at 1.2 volts or could I go for better CL timings and run 1.35 volts?

My laptop is a Lenovo Legion series 5 (17IMH05H) with an 10th Gen i7 10750H processor and dual channel DDR4-3200 SODIMM ram.

I know we got some computer experts here on the forum and I'm wondering if you could steer me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Jeff


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