Number of Memory Dimms vs. Overclocking?

[christophercolumbusdog]

Hey, I have a question regarding overclocking and the system memory.

 

Now, I have an i5-750 running at 3.2GHz on a P7-P55 DE-PRO board. Currently, I have 8GB of RAM, using 2 4GB sticks. 

 

I've been doing more video editing using after effects and I want to step up to 16GB or 32GB of RAM. However, to do that, I would most likely need to purchase a 4 dimm kit, and thus fully populate the slots on my board. Will the adversely affect my ability to overclock my CPU? I don't really care about OC'ing my RAM (I'll probably buy and use a 1600MHz kit setting), but I still want to be able to overclock my CPU effectively, even past the settings I'm currently running on.

 

So, is it ok to populate all of the slots?

 

Thank you very much!

 

-- Christophercolumbusdog

 

[Godlygamer23]

No. It's going to affect overclocking your RAM. Less sticks=overclocking RAM made easier. Your CPU OCing ability should not be affected.