Low latency ram...worth it?

Hey everyone,
I'm thinking about upgrading my RAM, and one of the options is RAM with low latency. Does it make that much of a difference? Cutting down on latency for recording music was the main reason I was thinking of upgrading my RAM in the first place.
Thanks...

To save you the trouble, CL 4 versus standard CL 5 RAM wins every benchmark, though not at amazing numbers. So if the CL 4 RAM is only a small amount more then yes there are slight advantages lower latency. I use CL 4 RAM and things are much snappier, though mine is a MacBook which relies heavily on RAM due to the integrated graphics.

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OK here ya go. 2 different versions of logic and 2 different versions of SL. Every time you close and reopen a project. You have to check low latency again. I guess I just never noticed it in the main studio because I never needed it, Using a Mac Pro, Motu 896, Buffers set @ 512 Medium With multiple fire wire devices, Multiple midi devices, Recording 8 audio tracks at the same time. Never a problem. On the I-Mac With Apogeee duet. 1 Track with no plugins. Buffers @ 128 I need it. Go figure. Thanks for your input everyone. Bill
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which mem best do you think
i had 3200 in sys for a while o.c only to 210x12
tight timings on mem 2.3.3.6
good b/mark 5600+
put in 4400 clocked to 220x12 stable
looser timings 3.4.4.7.
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but with gcard at same mhz why am i dropping scores ?
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3xht = stock 200fsb 600 mhz
if so if i drop this to 3 when i o,c cpu im not going beyond my boards fsb of 800 stock by to much .
confused you soon will be arrrrrgh pulling my hair out
ok kingfisher gonna read it again i know i know rtfm.

Well, I'm not AMD64 user,
but I think if you can go to FSB 275 with AMD64... woww, it's so amazing! (am I right?) Do you really need PC4400?
Just go for Twinx XL, as it is rated with tight timings (2-2-2-5) at stock and can overclock very well (I think timing by SPD @ FSB 250 is 2.5-3-3-6, pretty good huh? But mine 2.5-3-3-5 ).
So you have wide range of FSB with PC3200 price.
You may not only choose Corsair TwinxXL as other also have release their "extreme low latencies and wide range FSB", like Crucial Ballistix and other, check them at Anandtech, Memory section, DDR 2-2-2... or just click this
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There are so many factors that affect latencey and if you're making your living or it''s really important, I'd roll up my sleeves and tackle this puppy head on. Do you have a really high track count? Are you running a lot of plug ins? What is the disk buffer size set to? What do you have the processing threads set to? How much RAM do you have? Are you using an external drive that's fighting to keep up? What sample rate are you running at........
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