Quote Originally Posted by xlink
you realize that the timings are measured in cycles and that if you increase the cycles the latency is staying effectively the same right?
Timings do make a difference. It's just that RAM speed tends to be more important. Try running SuperPi 32M at 3-3-3 and again at 4-4-4 with same FSB and memory speeds. 3-3-3 will be faster, I guarantee you.

There were a couple of articles early on saying timings don't matter, period. Well, if you bench, timings do matter, especially if you're running 1:1. Writers tend to over-generalize.