Although tighter memory timings and a 1T command rate can certainly improve the performance of the Athlon 64's memory subsystem, that improvement doesn't always translate to better application performance. In fact, with the exception of the Sphinx speech recognition engine, moving to tighter memory timings or a more aggressive command rate generally didn't improve performance by more than a few percentage points, if at all, in our tests.

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