Memory timings no effect on gaming?

[Varmint]

I overclocked my 3000+ to 2.5 GHz, and memory (OCZ platinum DDR400) is at 227 MHz.

I tried both 3-3-3-7 and 2.5-3-2-5 settings, and 3DMark05 and 06 are almost identical, within a couple points.

Is there some gaming benefit of fast timings that doesn't show up in benchmarks? Or should I use loose timings and crank up the memory speed?

 

[Boyo]

If you are stable at 3-3-3-7, then go ahead and crank up your FSB. You will see more power that way.

 

[Varmint]

If you are stable at 3-3-3-7, then go ahead and crank up your FSB. You will see more power that way.

I couldn't get much than 235 mhz even with loose timings, so I'm gonna stick with the 5:6 setting and run at 227 mhz, putting the cpu at a nice even 2.5 GHz. Thanks though!

 

[Adidas4275]

run sisandra if you want to see a difference, real word gaming or 3dmark also depends on a lot more than just RAM... or run superpi and you should see a difference...

 

[Demon_of_The_Fall]

This isn't really news, there's never been any benchmarks showing any gaming performance increase whatsoever from tight-timing RAM. It's just something for people to waste money on when they should be buying a good GFX card or something instead.