Are timings as important as they used to be?

[d_brennen]

Are memory timings as important as they used to be for eeking out performance from ones RAM or have they been drowned with raw MHz speed? Just wondering... I recall spending hours tweaking DDR timings down as low as possible

 

[the1gooner]

I used to be the same a few years ago tweaking DDR PC3200 memory to run at the lowest possible timings.

Even going so far as to spend a lot of money on Mushkin memory with the famous BH-5 memory chips.

These days memory timings don't really affect performance, I just leave everything at 'SPD'

 

[DIABLO]

It does effect performance but things have gotten to the point where the performance gains arn't noticed in anything other then benchmarks specialize in testing the RAM.