If I were to halve the speed on my ram then halve the timings, would the ram have the same overall performance or would it suffer a loss somewhere? My knowledge as far as ram goes is quite limited, but from what I understand the theoretical performance should be the same.

For knowledge sakes, it is more of a theoretical question than something I'm going to do. It has been bugging me for a while so I decided I should ask and find out.

I will respond to both posters here since my time is very limited…

To the OP:  It is possible for lower speed/lower timing to beat higher speed/higher timing but only if that speed/timing are very carefully tuned using the right methodology, and, the reduction of speed was not significant and the reduction of timing, is. As memory speed increases, regardless of CAS timing changes, the MCH read delay drops and therefore as you reduce memory speed you are effectively reducing memory performance to application which take full advantage of it.



To the 2nd: That article although a good one states why faster memory speed and lower timing are important however the reader must understand something very critical: MSFS is not a desktop application or a game, it’s a simulator and as such it will respond to memory speed and timing like any other application that takes advantage of it.