Newbie memory question: is CL6 worth having?

[Craig234]

Fry's had a good sale on 4GB Crucial memory (6400 CL6) for like $20 AMIR.

My impression reading here is CL6 is slow. Should I just return it?

 

[Samalama]

Well I run my Kingston DDR2-667 at 5-5-5-15 (CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS), which is up from 4-4-4-12 @ 533mhz, and I haven't noticed it feeling any slower. So I can't imagine CL6 would feel any slower, really, except for in benchmarks.

 

[Denithor]

Memory speed only really impacts how much you can overclock and memory timings have almost no impact at all.

CAS6 memory is perfectly fine, glad you got such a good deal on it!