Overclocked CPU and Ram Question

[kendo65]

Yes, I'd say 4Gig is about the sweet spot now. More is better but diminishing returns kick in pretty much above 4 I think.

[Katana1000S]

Kendo has pretty much got it, if you populate all a motherboards (for example) 4 memory banks it likely will bring your overclock down due to more strain on the memory controller, but 8GB I would say is maybe nearer the sweet spot these days, so a mother board with dual channel 2 x 4 GB equalling 8GB using two slots of a 4 memory bank situation would be my advise ... assuming you are using a 64 bit OS of course, ram is cheap just now and it wont go wrong.

I've actually went 16GB ram, 4 x 4GB in quad channel on my latest build, but this board actually has 8 ram slots, so again I've only populated half of them and still got a nice overclock of 4.6 GHz on my socket 2011 I7-E 3960X build.