Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. You hear it all the time on television from the guys hawking the next big thing in the stock market with the get-in-low mentality. Well if past performance does happen to be any indicator, then Mushkin's Blackline modules will provide a certain level of performance along with a more than modest amount of overclocking headroom. With Intel's release of the Socket 1156 processors, there was the need to deliver modules that worked within the same boundaries as those processors since they are built upon the same Nehalem micro-architecture. That meant that the voltage used to push the modules should not exceed the 1.65 volt specification set by Intel. Pretty much every manufacturer has been on board and delivered modules that meet and exceed this specfication with speeds that really are reaching new overclocking limits. This set of Blackline modules are part of the Extreme performance lineup and, as such, come with enhanced latencies of 7-9-7-24 at 1600MHz, using just 1.65 volts. The modules come equipped with Mushkin's sleek looking Frostbyte heatspreaders that not only give the modules a unique look, but are functional to boot. With each set of Mushkin modules that I have tested, the "Get More " tag line has been on the packaging. It's there for a reason! Let's see if this set of modules indeed live up to the expectation set by Mushkin's past performance.