So therefore 9-7-7-21 Isn't bad?Timings are latencies on RAM - the greater the latency, the greater time it takes for the RAM to relate information to the CPU etc, thus lower latencies or timings are better, as it is faster and increases performance. However, this performance increase generally isn't noticeable, apart from benchmark applications. An example of latencies for DDR3 RAM are 8-8-8-24. Better timings would be 7-7-7-20. Worse timings would be 9-9-9-27.