Slower memory timings or higher?

ideally you'd want highest frequency with lowest timings.

Which speed is correct for you? It depends on your motherboard/CPU/Memory combination.

Well if it's for an i7 build, the sweet spot is 1333mhz RAM. I personally chose 1600mhz Gskil PI, 8-8-8-24, which runs fine. You won't see any difference with real world apps between 1333mhz and 1600mhz, let alone the timing differences.

Here is a great article regarding timings vs. frequency, with synthetic and real world apps.

http://www.techspot.com/article/13 [...] age15.html

However I think the 1333mhz sweet spot was when DDR3 1600mhz was alot more expensive than 1333mhz ram. Now there's probably less than $20 difference, with some low end 1600mhz ram priced lower than high end 1333mhz ram.

and how do you see how the memory fares on like searching the web?

been looking at the benchmarks, theres little to no difference in gameplay, The 1066 mhz actually seems to be the sweet spot the the i7, 1333 mhz after it, think ill go with 1066 with a low CAS frequency

Still dunno what affects how "fast" your internet loads though

oh no, i meant ithought that RAM increases the time your internet loads, hence its name random access memory, i have a fast internet so i dont need to worry about upgrading, except the laptop im using now is sluggish, so i thought in my new build i'd want to load teh internet faster