Does less memory yield better overclocks?

[qqwerty109]

Whenever i go to CPU-Z leaderboards i see completely bananas overclocks, and most of them are done with usually less memory than 4GB or exactly 16GB. Is this because someone could fit all their RAM with a Nitrogen cooler and someone couldn't? Or is there a genuine technological reason for this?

 

[Barty1884]

Each chip on (most) consumer DIMMs are 512MB*, so I would assume 4GB (8 chips) would be the smallest denomination you could run, while having the best chance of the "best" quality chips in terms of consistent voltage etc which, in theory could contribute to the best/highest overclocks..... but that's simply guesswork on my part -- and wouldn't explain why 16GB would also show near the top of the charts.

1GB chips exist, and IIRC Samsung announced 2GB chips.... but you don't see too many 1GB in the 'wild', and I don't believe 2GB's are out yet.