I RMA'd a kit just like that about a year ago becuase they never worked quite right I thought it was a board issue but when I upgraded to my maximus formula board they still didnt work, they sent me a new set of the same sticks.

on a side note, i wasnt talking crap about them when i did it, i was acutally suprised that they would RMA somthing that old as there is really no reason that they should.

and when you say "I feel ripped off by Corsair" you sound rediculous this is a wildly old set of ram that you had problems with to begin with and you never contacted corsair to let them fix it and now you feel jaded. memory IC matter but if corsair figured that those would work the same in their dominator sticks with the "micron" then im guessing they must perform almost the same, every memory company on the planet changes chips around from differant manufactures.