Their analogy is bull.. Memory timings are more like minor tuning to a cars engine, they make a very small difference. Loosen you timings as much as possible (11-3-3-3 or so), overclock as much as possible, and THEN try dropping the timings.. 5 more MHz fsb is much better than cas 2.

Well yeah but for 90% of applications out there.. and most importantly, games.