New build, 64gb (8x8) on X79, will this break my overclocking leverage?

[undeclared]

I am building a new box, specs are as follows:

Rampage IV Extreme
Core i7 3930k
DH-D14 SE2011 Heatsink

I am currently set to receive 16gb g.skill sniper LV dimms (1.25v, which I presume will give me a lot of overclocking headroom on the ram, being that it's 1.25v @ cas 9 ddr3-1600)

Is it going to break my overclocking leverage? Is my ram going to have run dramatically slower for this to work? (I was hoping to go higher on the other stuff, but I can accept less speed more capacity in this case)

I do know that the IMC heats up more based on ram so to speak, so I can only wonder if this will royally screw up overclocking headroom.

I would like to see a 5ghz OC.

 

[d4a2n0k]

Whenever you fill the RAM slots, you run the risk of lower CPU overclocks. Sure sometime you can get lucky but if youre pushing for the highest CPU overclock, you should have a better chance without filling the slots.

Chances are you wont see 5ghz whether you fill the slots or not unless you are putting it under water. My 3960x can hit 5ghz but not without ridiculous voltage (1.5+) which causes the temps to skyrocket to over 80C. With an H100, mine runs in the high 60's/low 70's at 4.6ghz 1.32v using IBT w/avx. The H100 gives slightly lower temps over the NH-D14 in my testing so its not going to happen with that Noctua.

 

[undeclared]

Gotcha. 64GB it is then

 

[tweakboy]

Hey Undeclared what line of work you in ? Your soo excited about yoru 64GB and heck I would be too but Im just letting you know you will never use over 8GB RAM. Unless you use audio production and you load all the samples into RAM, so for me it would be good. What do you do ? Adobe Premiere , Vegas, Sonar X1d . Then I know I will use like 20GB RAM on a project. Hanns Zimmer uses 64GB RAM MAC 5 special made for him. He makes templates from Kontakt loads all samples. For me 64GB would ride for 10 to 20 years on my next system.

 

[undeclared]

About to get flamed here, but I am probably gonna use the ram as a ram cache for my SSD to speed it up... 48gb ram cache at least =P

Hey Undeclared what line of work you in ? Your soo excited about yoru 64GB and heck I would be too but Im just letting you know you will never use over 8GB RAM. Unless you use audio production and you load all the samples into RAM, so for me it would be good. What do you do ? Adobe Premiere , Vegas, Sonar X1d . Then I know I will use like 20GB RAM on a project. Hanns Zimmer uses 64GB RAM MAC 5 special made for him. He makes templates from Kontakt loads all samples. For me 64GB would ride for 10 to 20 years on my next system.