BTW, I understand that to reach these high-end RAM speeds I would need to up my CPU core voltage significantly - not sure how that would fly on Air cooling.
Don't worry about it.... many peeps overclock their i7's to insane speeds on air cooling.....its just a matter of monitoring your temps every now n then....
Btw you won't really need to do much to that 975 since it is stupid fast out of the box...
On a side note :
If money is not an issue get an EVGA Classified motherboard.... as far as x58 goes the Classified is second to none...
The Thermaltake sword has Massive airflow.... the top panel can fit 4 120mm fans alone...the side can fit 6 120mm and trust me, airflow will not be an issue...
The sword has an astounding number of places for fans(12 120mm), meaning you will actually have a small tornado living in your room......
I too am trying to select the right memory here for an i7 920, ASUS P6T board. Looking to not spend more than $250, and typically like to run Corsair. I'm still on XP Pro, so 3GB's is the most I can run, if I understand it correctly. I'm comfortable with OC's.