I am running 2x 4Gb Patriot 1333Mhz DDR3 OCd @ 1600 in my build.When I push to this speed I end up with timings of 9, 9, 9, 24If I clock back down to the SPD clock speed, I can push the timing more aggressively.Now I am thinking that realistically speaking, none of this is going to have too much difference as far as FSX performance is concerned, but am I wrong?If so, what is more beneficial to FSX, higher clock or more agressive timings?Cheers

When you overclock a Sandy Bridge cpu you are overclocking the cpu multiplier and not the Front Side Bus so that overclocking the RAM is pretty non-productive and can lead to all sorts of issues including app.dll crashes. The speed of RAM is usually tied to the FSB and if this is fixed it is far better to use the SB 1155 mother board settings for whatever RAM speed you have. Having said there will be very little performance gain on a SB rig between 1300 Mhz and 2000 MHz overclocked or not. In the i7 9xx series you overclocked the FSB and RAM speed and latency was very important and the gains were supposedly significant. But then you notice that Intel has gone from the supposedly faster Triple channel DDR3 RAM back to dual channel DDR3 RAM (as in the i7 8xx series) and that should speak volumes about the importance of RAM speed.RegardsPeterH

Ram speed isn't going to greatly affect performance unless you are using very high quality textures etc.... Regardless, I think that the best way to go is fast components for a system. Stick with 1600 9.9.9.24

Believe me, RAM speed does normally not make a difference at all, but it WILL reduce MICROstuttering in FSX.

RAM speed does normally not make a difference at all, but it WILL reduce MICROstuttering in FSX.

So it doesn't but it does?

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So it doesn't but it does?

Well, I meant to say that in "normal" cases, in 99% of the programmes, high speed RAM does not make a difference, maybe a tiny, but unnoticable difference. But as we all know FSX is a strange programme, which seems to like CPU's running at high clockspeeds, and where RAM would normally not make a difference in 99% of the programmes as I said, in FSX it will make a little difference. Faster RAM will give you a little bit smoother experience. I won't increase framerate at all, but it just makes things smoother, less microstuttering, less hiccups. The difference is not like day and night, but it's just smoother. No need to get yourselves 150$+ RAM. I now bought Corsair Dominator 2133 CL9, and works perfectlhy fine. 8GB is the optimum amount of RAM.

RAM speed does normally not make a difference at all, but it WILL reduce MICROstuttering in FSX.

So it doesn't but it does?