RAM CL and underclocking Question

michael2459

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I was reading a forum post about comparing two RAM DIMMs close in price. One had faster frequency but both had same CL/timings. The slower one was the max the motherboard could handle anyways, but somone said to buy the faster and underclock it to the motherboards recommended and the CL will be smaller. Is this right?

I thought the latency was in clock cycles because it had to do that many cycles regardless of clock rate. Are the timings actually locked into number of cycles or are they locked into nanoseconds of latency?
 
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No if you look at say 1600 with a 9 CL and 1866 with a 9 CL, you can often run the 1866 sticks at 1600 with a CL of 8 and lower CL adds performance