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He does give noise measurements right here. Or else he's really, really, fast at responding to criticism.

Most of those benchmarks showed little or no performance benefit.

The article is about PC1066, a new kind of memory. The memory specific benchmarks do show quite a big performance increase!! (see the last three graphs on this page of the article)

The fact that the other graphs show little or no performance difference I think is quite likely due to the fact that the tests employed have different kinds of bottlenecks due to system limitations -- limitations other than memory bandwidth.

You might get similar results if you tested a new sound card (for example) that had faster hardware acceleration -- sure, the Quake III benchmark would only show a small difference, but another test that made more significant usage of the sound card (a test in Cubase for example) would show a greater performance increase. (Umm, I know it's not a great example, but I'm hope you get what I mean!).

It's not a troll in the usual slashdot sense.

I just reposted a random comment from the board on the linked site

It's a 0day warez comment if you like :)