About the Snipers, do you have source that they use Micron for 8 GB modules? If they do, then its very probable than the CAS 9 version is just a better binned version of it. Although the CAS 9 version got released some time later, so maybe it does uses different IC.
In the post where I was responding to the other fella (my post #35) I linked to a GSkill review of a 2x8GB kit of the Ares Series, not Sniper Series. The reviewer pulled the spreaders and those Ares were using Micron chips and are the ones with the 10-11-10-31 timings. Since GSkill often just changes the spreaders on their ram and keeps everything else the same (such as the second Sniper, product 546 per above), I was postulating that the Snipers you listed in your post #36 were probably not Micron, but instead Hynix, as they had timings which were almost the same as the AMD kit reported to have MFR. However, since then I looked on Newegg's site and found an 8GB Crucial 1866 C9 stick with 9-9-9-27 timings (linked below), so now I'm not so sure and would have to say that it is possible that those Snipers are also Micron and not MFR.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148562

Without seeing the actual modules to note the coding on the S/N, if will be very difficult to identify the ICs under the spreaders unless you are looking at the high-end, where you know only MFR is being used.