re: RAM timings

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I've heard reducing them can improve performance and get rid of some stuttering in games.

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Also, to revisit this, as it's a subject I find most tech reviewers don't spend enough time on: you really, really don't want to be CPU bound when gaming. Sure, they'll tell you that because they say it's wasting money on your GPU, which is true. But in my experience, every game I've ever been CPU bound in has had terrible micro stuttering. I think it's just the nature of CPUs that they don't task switch as well as GPUs do, so they hitch more frequently. If you find yourself in that situation, paradoxically, you might improve the "feel" of the game performance if you increase the graphics settings to the point that you're GPU limited again.