What does CAS 2 and CAS 3 mean???

ok yah know its been bothering me for awhile now not knowing what the importance of setting your RAM to CAS 2 or CAS 3 is. and i just figured ill ask b/c the stupid questions are the ones that arnt asked, so here is goes.

what is the importance of CAS 2 and CAS 3 for RAM and what does it mean/do ect. ? i would like to be enlightened

CAS 2 is faster than CAS3, but CAS3 will let you run at higher FSB. Im not really sure what CAS is technical, iv been told, but i must not have paid very good attention. Somebody correct me if im wrong,but its the wait time between getting an instruction and exectuting it, correct.

Thanks for asking the stupid question. You're not the only ignorant one.

CAS (Column Address Strobe) - A memory chip signal that latches the column address of a particular location in a row-column matrix.
CAS Latency:
The ratio between column access time and clock cycle time.
CAS Latency 2 (CL2) offers a slight performance increase over CAS Latency 3 (CL3).

The term CAS latency refers to the number of clock cycles it takes before a column can be addressed on the DRAM chip.
Latency is a measure of delay, so a "CL2" CAS latency factor indicates a two-clock cycle delay, and a "CL3" latency factor indicates a three-clock cycle delay.

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Same about your avatar!