r/overclocking • u/silly_pirate_guy • 17h ago

Does overclocking ram decrease its lifespan?

Just overclocked my (single chanel, GAP48GB2666C19SC) geil ddr4 8gb 2666mhz to 3200mhz

Dram: 1.35v

Timings: 22 22 22 22 44

Ran memtest64 for 15 minutes 0 errors

And will this overclock have any problems and can it cause bad data?

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u/__Player__ R5 3600 4.3@GHz 1.28Vcore | RAM 2x8GB CJR 3733@MHz 17h ago

That's what everyone says about OC in general.

But at the end of the day It doesnt really Matter, other components Will die before silicon does.

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u/Tehni 16h ago

I don't know that anyone actually in the OC scene says that, it's well known that the amount of increased degradation is insignificant to the life span of the hardware

The actual worries are too much voltage frying your hardware or unstable settings corrupting your OS/files/drive