Well, I just am revisiting this thread after an absence from it....over 5000 views. Dang!
I'm still running the Firestix and they're right at 900MHz memory speed.....so they do indeed overclock pretty well for the price.
But the general consensus is:
The Firestix are great performers
for the price!!!
Seems a lot of people criticizing the RAM just don't get it..........sure, you can easily find Micron D9 IC'd RAM that will overclock with as good or better timings than the Firestix, but you'll end up spending upwards of $300 or more to get there. Personally, $180 is a great price for what I am getting out of them.
Now, if I ever feel like becoming an Uber Overclocker and trying for world records....then I'll glady spend $375 and by some Cellshock (D9GKX) DDR1000, or some OCZ Titanium Alphas, or mushkin eXtreme Performance DDR1066, or some Corsair Dominator XMS 1066 or better........but again, all run $300 and up for the same 2GB of memory I spend $180 for. And honestly, outside benchmarks (which really I don't sit all day and run).....in the real world, I'd hesitate to believe the average user or even most power users would really be able to tell much of a difference between these and those.
Of course, you lose bragging rights.......but I don't show off my system like that. I try for best value for my money and at the time.....and probably even today, these fit that criterion quite well.
