P5B Deluxe timings 4-4-4 > 4-4-3 > 3-3-3 ?

[eva2000]

I just bought my first 965P chipset based board, Asus P5B Deluxe and playing around with E6600 B1 and 9x400fsb 1:1 boot from bios just to get a feel for the board.

I read that 4-4-4 is faster than 3-3-3 timings ????

I just tested 32M

400mhz 4-4-4-4 ~14min 39s untweaked and ~14min 32s memset tweaked
400mhz 4-4-3-4 ~14min 38s untweaked
400mhz 3-3-3-8 running right now but at half way mark is already 30 seconds slower than either 4-4-4-4 or 4-4-3-4 tests ????

I'm using 0804 bios.... anyone get to the bottom of this yet as to why 3-3-3-8 is so slow ?

thanks