Mackanz -- Can you speak to the issues we're seeing with OCing Infineon RAM?

Hey bud --

So I'm piecing together my new system and I get a little hung up on the RAM I want. Cost is of little issue, I just wanted the best stuff, so at first I thought it was a no brainer. Pretty much all the 1GB DIMMs running off the fast Infineon chips have overclocked real well, with OCZ's offerings being no exception.

So I have my mind all made up, when I start seeing reports that the newest Infineon chips (CH6 or whatever they are, previous were the 5 version) are piss poor overclockers with none of them breaching the 250 mark with any reliability. At first I thought it was typically inexperienced people who are having trouble overclocking memory -- After all, the Infineon chips can be a little more touchy than the Samsung a lot of us are used to -- But the reports keep coming. They seem fairly widespread to such an extent that it is hard to just chock it up to people being noob. Even then, I'm not the great memory tweaker ever, so I don't want a memory that requires me to be a tweaker god just to reach a halfway decent overclock.

It's not just OCZ, but ALL of the manufactures using these chips (Mushkin, Crucial some Corsair... Pretty much everybody has at least one product out that uses them).

So now I'm thinking of going Corsair XMS TWINX2400 since it overclocks so well... Albeit at slower timings than the old Infineon stuff did.

I just wanna know what gives? When will we see good Infineon-clad DIMMs from OCZ and the like again? Why do the 6's suck? Where are the 7's?

I r sad panda. =[