Another 2 sticks affect overclocking?

keogh

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Hi Guys,

Last week I purchased my new PC components from OCUK and I built it all yesterday.

The spec is:

EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Superclocked 2048MB
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge)
Seasonic M12II 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black
Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3DUS) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit

I bought this machine mainly for gaming, but I may use it for work purposes a long with my Mac mini also. This would mean putting a VirtualBox with Ubuntu server on it and using quite a bit of Photoshop. This means I would want to allocate a bit or RAM to those two programs, therefore having 8GB might make things a bit tight.

So I'm planning on getting another 8GB of the same RAM (Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3DUS)) and then filling up all four slots on my board giving me 16GB which is more than enough.

At the moment I don't plan to overclock, but in the future I will, will having another 8GB affect the overclock at all? Or are there any other pitfalls (apart from a lighter wallet) to having 16GB and all four slots in use on this board/with this specific RAM?

Any help appreciated, I plan on buying this today... so hopefully you guys can respond quite fast.

Cheers!
 
illuz said:
You may need to pump some extra volts through it. Whats your timings & current volts? vccsa/io & DRAM.
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Not sure, whatever they would be at stock with this board I suppose as I haven't touched any clock settings as of yet.

Its been 7+ years since I last overclocked a machine, so might take me some time when I get round to doing it in remembering/learning what to do... I'll start with learning what VCCSA/IO means probably :)
 
Decided to get another 8GB anyway, going from this thread, the general consensus seems to be anything more than gaming (Photoshop / Video editing etc) then the more the better.

So thought what the hell, an extra 8GB should be nice.
 
When you get them try and clock it at 2133 9-10-10-28-1T v1.55, if that works you can try 9-10-10-24-1T. Running these dimms at stock is a crime ;)
 
dependant on your chip it could cause you issues. The more memory or higher speed could put more strain on the imc requiring more volts or a backoff on your overclock.
 
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