What I did was take the eVGA 8800GT SSC BIOS, changed the voltage to 1.1v, and flashed it to my Palit. Since the card is more than stable at 700/1750/1000, the SSC BIOS is fine. But without changing the RAM timings 1000 is it for the RAM. I then took the same BIOS, changed the timings to the ones from the first post and now the RAM will go to 1044 no issues. Not much, but it helps.