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The chips and cheese number feels like an all-in number; get a timestamp, do a memory read (that you know will not be served from cache), get another timestamp.

The anandtech article is latencies for parts of a memory operation, between the memory controller and the ram. End to end latency is going to be a lot more than just CAS latency, because CAS latency only applies once you've got the proper row open, etc.

Getting requests up through the cache hierarchy to the DRAM controller, and data back down to the requesting core's load/store units is also a non-trivial part of this total latency.

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