best dimm sockets for overclocking?

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venm11

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Using 1 set of Dimms is a known way to get faster speeds, and some motherboards explicitly say that you can only get faster speeds with single dimms per-channel. But does it matter which sockets they're in?

I'm using mine in sockets 3+4, because they're further from the hot CPU drafts. I'm also vaguely speculating that they'd act as terminators for the channel, rather than have the lines continue past the ram to an empty slot (reflections?).
 
A number of motherboards, actually, AM2/AM3. I managed to google up some info which says that the far sockets should be used for the highest speeds (eg, ddr2000+), otherwise it doesn't matter.
 
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