if im not mistaken,the ram's higher clock speed will benefit much more on P4 platforms than tighter timings.there was an article on this that i read, that showed quite a significant difference in SiSoft memory benchmark.but that article was published before the days of the A64..

for me, i can see that higher ram clock speed is better that tighter timings because my rams are not capable of 2-2-2-5 at higher clocks.IIRC, my rams can take 2-2-2-5 only till DDR410.i did a superpi comparison with the rams at DDR410/2-2-2-5 with DDR500/2.5-4-3-5, and the second setting gave better results (cpu speed was kept the same).

opps.sry,my earlier post didnt mean to answer the topic starter.just wanted to share some info in this discussion

anyway,im sure tighter timings will be better than higher fsb since he wants do to little oc