all this time i was pro timings mean everything, till i read that, but i've been doing memory benchmarks for like 2 yrs but i still didnt quite understand it so i went with what came close to making sense
but now im reevaluating the matter, in all of the synthetic benchmarks i've run, less latency really shows no major performance gain.
and just like the pentium platform, amd still perform well with high latency, of course theres more bandwidth that goes to waste but doenst hurt .
another reason i selected timings over bandwidth is because i was trying new timings and went to like 3-5-5-12 and started up one of my favorite games which is extremely memory/cpu extensive, and it ran sluggish enough for me to realize it in real-time.
so who knows what the correct formula is, one has to exceed the other because if not, we'd be stuck using pc2700.