Going from 8gb to 16gb lower my max possible overclock?

nightrider1470 · 26 Jan 2018 at 15:13

Just wondering if I wont get as higher an overclock from 8gb to 16gb?

Robzere31 · 26 Jan 2018 at 15:53

If your populating all the available memory slots it may affect the CPU overclock, but if you going 2x4gb to 2x8gb it shouldn't

DarkHorizon472 · 26 Jan 2018 at 17:05

As above, I found going from 2 x 8gb to 4 x 8gb meant I had to raise my cpu voltage slightly to remain stable and also lower memory speed from 3333 c14 to 3200 c14. I am more interested in stability than on the very edge overclocking.

P4Clock · 29 Jan 2018 at 21:19

it all depends on the IMC of the chip, but it is common for the overclock to change in some way if you go from 2 stick to 4 sticks, or if you change to a faster ram speed

pastymuncher · 30 Jan 2018 at 10:56

On Haswell going from a pair of 4Gb sticks to 4x 4Gb sticks made no difference at all to anything. No extra voltage needed or any other changes. Just dropped them in and it all worked.

P4Clock · 30 Jan 2018 at 12:17

pastymuncher said:
On Haswell going from a pair of 4Gb sticks to 4x 4Gb sticks made no difference at all to anything. No extra voltage needed or any other changes. Just dropped them in and it all worked.

Then you have a strong imc or your oc is not maxed out/ you was already running more volts than needed