well, i have a good example for you guys.... i had my 2.6c @ 3.11ghz, 239 fsb, 5:4 ratio, ram is 3500 was running at 191mhz. Got about 340-350 fps in quake 3 benchmarks. last night, i didnt want to push my vcore like i had been, so i tried some 1:1 ratio benchmarking. im running at 2.91ghz right now, 224fsb/224mhz ram (448mhz). I get 350-360 fps. Used same timings, gat settings, which are 2.5-8-4-4 and from top to bottom gat: auto/normal/auto/disable/disable. mem scores in sandra were the same, cause all i did was change the ratio, but my cpu arith was a lot lower, but i got more fps. so yeah, running both the fsb/ram NSYNC ( blahah! ) is faster then running things off. Cause of my unluckyness, to hit 3.11ghz fully stable i had to use a 1.65vcore, i felt unsafe doing that and decided to try a 1:1 ratio, ended up getting a lil more fps, off stock voltage. Thats a nice tradeoff in my opinion. Once i get money for faster ram, im going to do so, seeing how my ram is the bottleneck of my max oc. For now, im going to stick with the 1:1 ratio, i get a lilttle more fps and my cpu is at stock vcore.