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How much of a big deal are ram timings?

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RockGuitarDude

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Running an athlon 64, am I really going to see that much of a difference with ram of better latencies?

The reason I ask is that I am trying to get my computer to be better able to work with my band's multi track recordings. I get a lot of skipping when working on them so I think I need more than 512 ram but the ram I have now has 3-4-4 timings (Kingmax hardcore pc4000). I want to know if the timings are THAT important before I plunge myself deeper invested in ram with bad timings by buying another stick or two of this ram. I am running at stock fsb (pc3200 speeds), can I run it at better timings if I up the voltage?

Thanks all.
 
Timings are way overrated, some time the difference between good timing ram and regular ram is over 50 percent price increase, where the performance gain is minimal. Probably not even enough for you to notice.
 
Yeah see thats what I thought but I thought the price premium would have some sort of real justification. After seeing benchmarks showing for example UT2004 showing 2 FPS difference for the best and worst timings I figured it had to be bs but I cant see why people don't just get 2 gigs of cheap ram and then disable page files in windows and get sick performance.
 
ram timming do come in to effect when overclocking. tighter timings can be loosend for higher overclocks. it would suck to jump to 5-5-5-10 @ 433. generally with A64 Cas 2.5 of 3 is good for non overclocking, because of the onboard mem controller.
 
They make a difference in useless benchmarks. Bigger numbers = bigger penis and/or breasts.
 
I agree that timings aren't very significant, but I wouldn't get anything cheaper than name-brand PC3200 CL 2.5. If I got CL3, I'd be afraid the memory had been sitting around in a warehouse for years. It kind of scares me that people are still selling PC2100 or PC2700. I don't think anybody actually makes that memory anymore.
 
Crucial's PC3200 stuff is CL3, and with their volume I certainly don't think it's old. Anyeay, I too wonder why people insist on paying big bucks for RAM that gains them nothing wrt performance. I know the motto "You get what you pay for" still holds true a lot of the time, but it has its limits. And when you see people like the guys at Toms just say flat out that timings don't matter, you'd think people would smarten up.
 
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