thanks Angelo and Oliver, glad you got a kick out of it.

@ Oliver, i would love to take the heat sinks off but the way they put these on I just don't like doing it. word on the memory grape vine is they could be 0906 or 0904 based on results...or at least they clock very much like top binned 0906 or 0904 batches.

@ angelo, i would love to compare the top bin from Corsair but i don't have a kit, plus it would be comparing one kit against one kit...which shouldn't really hold much water in an argument over which is better. still comes down to luck of the draw, but you have to buy top bin to be in that game. between the two, you will likely have very similar results. remember, they are all buying the same batch's of IC's from Elpida (or are they?), they are binning them under the same or similar criteria...results are likely similar.

with that said, my 1866 Dominator-GT's will run 32M 1050MHz 7-8-7-20-1T @ 1.75v, where these ones were able to do it with 1.70v...not much of a difference really. i actually want to run the 1866 GT's through the same testing i just did with these Blades, could be interesting results considering my GT's aren't the top bin. i might just do that after i finish some GPU benching in the next few days.