im not big on benchmarks, so i dont understand how the program works, but my bet is that i just looks at the latency and says this one is lets say 5 so it gets 10 points where this one is 6 so it only gets 7 points. then it looks at speed and says this one is 800 so it gets 8 points and this one is 1066 so it gets 10 points. if thats the way it works,, but i truly have no clue, it would rate the 800 as having 18 points and the 1066 as having 17. but if you look at the cycles per second, the amount of data per cloock and the delay in clocks (latency) it takes to access that data, good higher speed ram will out beat excelent lower speed ram, especally when you look at its affects on the cpu. he accidentally bought 1600 ram and was wonderin if it was going to work with his setup and the answer is yes as the ram controler will underclock the ram to wahtever the cpu can support, allso in most cases (not this one) when you underclock the ram from 1600 to 1333 or what ever your doing, the latency can be decrease and the system will run stable so if you 1600 is 9-9-9 and you drop it to 1333 usually you can getaway with setting the latency to 7-7-7 or what ever. again though i really have not clue on the benchmarks that rate by a point system, i perfer to use things that rate by throughput, where you should see an increase with the faster ram and therefore faster fsb. but in this case the fsb cant make 1600 (800 actual) as the cpu does not support this. the mobo saying it supports 1600 only means that they dont limit you to a certin speed. ram is controlled by the cpu's on-board ram contoler not the mobo, so aslong as the bios and cpu don't limit anything you could set it to wahtever youd like.