Nah, I'm all for big clocks. And frankly I feel too inexperienced with DDR3 to comment. I've really never tried anything besides CAS 7 on these sticks, and was pretty pleased. Sure I'm a BH5 diehard that hasn't fully recovered yet, and hate anything looser than 2-2-2-5, but what can ya do?

I've read on more than one occasion that 800 CL6 ~ 900 CL7 ~ 1000 CL8...any truth to that in your opinion??

JNL is that good eh...