the thing that worries me about value select is the true proformance. i put my mushkin 2700 up against some value ram, i think it was kingston 3200, that i got for my dad's rig and they were almost toe to toe in sis sandra 2004. the benchmarks were almost the exaact same, so i am wondering what the value will be besides haveing 2x512 over 2x256. i guess my obvious problem is only wanting to spend around $150. i did look at those corsair, and they are probably at the top of my list with 2.5 lat. and 3.2gb/s. thanks for the posts