Wrong methodology for testing in my opinion.
There is no real need of high speed memory in you scenario.

Install this ones into an AMD APU motherboard and test them for real.
That's where they will show their performance ,we all know how good APU-s scale with high speed RAM.

Please add an AMD APU platform when testing RAM modules.

Corsair is all about looks with their over-priced RAM kits. Their standard RAM is fine, but I'd skip the useless fans, whistles, bells and LEDs that are purely for looks as DDR3 RAM does not run hot and need any of this crap. In addition the top mounted heatsinks cause clearance issues with the better HSFs, so skip these and go for the better HSF.

As noted other than with APUs and that's limited also, there isn't any point in RAM with a frequency higher than 1600 MHz. for a typical desktop PC. Even 1333 MHz. frequency is not a bottleneck for most desktop systems.

Is it me, or did the author contradict himself in the following two consecutive statements about the DDR3-2133 C9 modules on page #4.

First we have the statement about the Samsung chips being used:



Then after the pic of the naked module showing the HCH9 ICs, he adds this statement:



So which is it? Actually, the second one is, as Samsung HCH9s are fine overclockers, among the best memory chips currently available.