with slower speed, cars can safely follow much closer to each other, but when the cars travel faster, the gap or distance between cars will gradually needed to be increase to avoid crashing... so the same principle apply to ram, unless some ram can run at very high speed with tight timing, ie mercedes s-class with auto distance n braking assist, they can travel upto 120kmph following tightly behind ur a55 safely...

tight timing, low frequency (4-4-4-12, 800mhz) vs loose timing, high frequency (5-5-5-15, 1000mhz)

so if given 1 hour time, the number of cars can actually reach a destination is almost same... let say these cars are data. given the same amount of time, the amount of data reach the processor is almost the same...

do i make sense??? well, it's just what i think... because i tried running the mentioned timing n speed but no significant performance gain... btw, i run 4-4-4-8, 4-4-4-10, 4-4-4-12 n 4-4-4-15. to be honest oso no different, maybe intel is really not that sensitive to ram timing... or i'm not that well understanding the setting thingy...

hehe, just sharing...

1T or 2T, but that only available on nvidia chipset mobo, or maybe my intel 975 n my previous 965 can't let me select... to proper gain performance from oced ram, higher frequency with good close CAS latency is very important... ther r rams can do 800mhz with CAS3, team extreme for 1... n some manage to do 1000mhz with CAS4 with the same ram...