Effects of Changing RAM on Overclock

[UpstartXT]

I am looking to get a new rig, and am wondering about how I am going to address an issue with one of the games I am going to play, Armed Assault. This game is notorious for being totally incompatible with a lot of things, but there has been an established workaround as well as fixes in the beta patches, so I am confident I can get it to run on my new system. Anyway, in order to run this game, you need to have less than 4 GB of RAM. Here is what I am talking about:

How to Get Armed Assault to Run

Basically I am wondering how doing this everytime I want to run ArmA will work with an overclock. I am an overclocking newb, but I was under the impression that getting a stable overclock depends on how much RAM you have?

If I were to overclock with 8 GB of RAM and get that completely stable, would I be able to do the fix listed here (set RAM to 3GB and reboot), and still be stable? Any potential downsides to this?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

theoretically, it shouldn't be a problem if u can "disable" your other 5gbs of ram.
i'm assuming u will be using a 64it OS?

and why the hell do u need 8gb of ram? what are all the things u r going to do with ur computer?

 

[UpstartXT]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
theoretically, it shouldn't be a problem if u can "disable" your other 5gbs of ram.
i'm assuming u will be using a 64it OS?

and why the hell do u need 8gb of ram? what are all the things u r going to do with ur computer?

Yep using Vista 64.... so overall capacity of RAM has no effect on overclock then... interesting

I was just arbitrarily picking a number larger than 4 gb, plus I like to play two games of solitare at once so I figure having the extra RAM would be a good bang for my buck

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: UpstartXT
I am looking to get a new rig, and am wondering about how I am going to address an issue with one of the games I am going to play, Armed Assault. This game is notorious for being totally incompatible with a lot of things, but there has been an established workaround as well as fixes in the beta patches, so I am confident I can get it to run on my new system. Anyway, in order to run this game, you need to have less than 4 GB of RAM. Here is what I am talking about:

How to Get Armed Assault to Run

Basically I am wondering how doing this everytime I want to run ArmA will work with an overclock. I am an overclocking newb, but I was under the impression that getting a stable overclock depends on how much RAM you have?

If I were to overclock with 8 GB of RAM and get that completely stable, would I be able to do the fix listed here (set RAM to 3GB and reboot), and still be stable? Any potential downsides to this?

this is assuming your system is stable. why would u have a problem if YOU can figure out how to disable 5gbs of ram?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: UpstartXT

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
theoretically, it shouldn't be a problem if u can "disable" your other 5gbs of ram.
i'm assuming u will be using a 64it OS?

and why the hell do u need 8gb of ram? what are all the things u r going to do with ur computer?

Yep using Vista 64.... so overall capacity of RAM has no effect on overclock then... interesting

I was just arbitrarily picking a number larger than 4 gb, plus I like to play two games of solitare at once so I figure having the extra RAM would be a good bang for my buck

since when is ram that is not used at all good bang for ur buck?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: UpstartXT
so overall capacity of RAM has no effect on overclock then... interesting

This is extremely untrue. 4GB (even 2x2 GB sticks) is harder to overclock as high as 2x1 GB. And don't buy four 2GB sticks, if you plan on overclocking very far. The more RAM you have, the more of a strain it puts on your memory controller, no matter where your memory controller is located (on-die for AMD's chips, and on the northbridge chipset for Intel's), resulting in a lower overclock.

 

[UpstartXT]

Myocardia: good info man that's very interesting

Louisss: as I said before man I was just using 8 GB to make the question more clear, or the effects more dramatic of doing what I was asking about doing (hence the joke about needing it for solitare)