I bought 3 more pairs from Newegg and I've been playing with them in the past couple days, and tested them one stick at a time in single channel mode at 1T, vdimm 2.7v and I'd tried 9x and 10x multiplier:


Max 3D stable @3-3-2-8

stick1: 250
stick2: 255

stick3: 264
stick4: 252

stick5: 252
stick6: 256



Increased vdimm to 2.8v did nothing to these sticks, 3-3-3-8 or very relax timing didn't help higher memclock either, since I was testing them individually in single channel so there's practically no stress on the mem controller, that's almost $1000 worth of ram and I still can't get any of them to do 3D stable any higher than 260 @3-3-2-8 The best they could managed was only 258 as I had to matched stick3 and stick6 together (two highest clockers). Needless to say I'm very disappointed with these sticks....atleast now I can't fault my motherboard, memory controller, or my memory tweaking skill. Don't get me wrong...these ram are decent but I do not think they worth $300/pair, I'm going to pack them up, send them straight back to newegg and suck up the 15% restocking fees...about $140 down the drain.