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Silver is ~7% more conductive than copper.
Not quite. More like 4.8%. Regular annealed copper is 100% of the IACS, and silver is at 105%.
Silver is definitely the best conductor though, which is why people like using solid silver or silver plated copper conductors for audio.
OCC copper can run between 100.6% and 101.2% of the IACS (if I remember correctly). Not a very significant difference.
If you're looking at it from a standpoint of conductivity, you can just use a slightly larger gauge wire to achieve the same effect.
Proponents of OCC say it has other benefits, which I won't comment on one way or the other.