What's Considered Better?

[Uberg33k]

My question is what is considered better;

1600 @ 9-9-9-24

or

1066 @ 7-7-7-20

Or somewhere in between? Or should I just try and achieve 1600 @ 8-8-8-24 with my RAM? Thanks in advance. :)

[Adzsask]

I have 1600MHz 9-9-9-24 RAM, and it runs @ 8-8-8-20 no problem. It's corsair XMS3 which is notorious for not being able to overclock much if at all so pretty much every 1600MHz kit should run @ stock clocks with a little tighter timings.

[lowfat]

1066MHz will start to become a bottleneck. Definitely 1600MHz 9-9-9-24.

[Silent_Avenger]

If you get a good set of 1600mhz and are lucky you could probably tighten your timings close to 7-7-7-20

[Masteroderus]

delay is related to cas timing and clock speed. I think cas 9 @ 1600 has less latency than cas 7 @ 1066 (check out wikipedia for the formulae as I am lazy!)

Edit: The cas 9 @ 1600 mhz is 1.88 nanoseconds faster than cas 7 @ 1066. Also there is much greater bandwidth @ 1600 (~1.5 of 1033).

[Uberg33k]

Thanks for the replies guys I guess I have my answer eh? lol Thanks for your help.