Pros: HX316C9SRK2/16: this is 2 x 8G DDR3 1600 C9 Fired up on Asus z97-A board no issues, directly on all targets, first and every time since. Killer asymmetrical look, and far more attractive in real life than pictured here. (Heat spreaders are a metallic candy apple red with diamond cut silver highlight - wow they look good!) Super low profile is an added bonus for some cases Met compat. of item it replaces (see other thoughts below)

Cons: Sys Ram in these larger modules is still a bit pricey but that's not Kingston's fault. Hidden completely beneath behemoth cooling solution ( DOH!!! see other thoughts below [facepalm] )

Overall Review: This ram is a replacement for older Hyperx that was compatible with a number of Asus z97 boards, but hadn't been updated into the lists by Asus - As the timings appeared to be similar enough and we could use it with other boards if there was a problem, we went ahead and bought this very interesting in appearance ram on sale. These look so good you won't want to cover them up but we unfortunately did with Noctua's ginormous NH14 ("the child's head"). Boy were we also fortunate these are very low profile as well as beautiful since that monstrous Elephantine cooler domiates the entire inerior of the giant Theramltake tower we used... The great news is these look beautiful, performed flawelssly on an Asus z97 board, and the low profile actually helped us with the Noctua's titanic size. Of course the bad news, is, we covered these beauties up with what is, odds on, the ugliest cooler fan color in the business! GAH! DOH! [facepalm facepalm facepalm] DOH!

Pros: *"Thar She Blows!" Largest Full tower we have ever done a build for! *Rearranging the cables? Access for cable control is soo flexible and soo straightforward that any reasonable PSU will have you using behind the mobo access for EVERY SINGLE connection. This is amzing in this department. +1 Egg *Stylish. Usually this doesn't count for much with us (witness our selection of EVGA cards for this build, currently, possibly the ugliest in the business) but this case is so eye catching, it earns an egg for it. +1 Egg *Straightforward, logical, and well-marked case wiring, and actual instructions (!) were included, written in a version of english you will recognize, AND appear to be correct. +1 Egg *Bottom external to external intake->exhaust PSU setup AND good placement for liquid cooling hoses easily worth another +1 Egg *Loads of extra hardware, nice black thumbscrews and we actually GOT standoffs, so for all those reviewers below, we probably got your hardware, DOH!

Cons: **"O! Thou Dam-ned Whale! From Hell's Depths I strike at Thee!": Phantom's Case Fans bring new meaning to the word "weak". Even at maximum we have never seen case fans worse than this, although a few Apevia's approached this level of ineptitude. -1 Egg Captain Ahab would approve of skewering them with a harpoon! We knew about the fans going in from other reviews we prepared in advance for a liquid cooling solution since (BEWARE!) NZTX manages to make some of their fan mounts fit ONLY their oddly placed screw-placement for fan replacement. -1 Egg Its a TRAP! *Painted interior *Fan controller is a waste (which in other circumstances might mean a plus 1 if the fans didn't rhyme with 'duck'!) *Although this case is a steel frame, it is also combined with some plastic, and moving it feels like you might be straining parts of it, since it creaks a lot when full. Some of this may be an unfortunate combination of materials, or, perhaps its actually flimsy construction

Overall Review: All in all its a great looking case, huge, with some of the best cable management we have ever seen. If you know going in the fans are worthless, and many of them are difficult to impossible to replace without using NZTX's worthless replacements, you won't be disappointed. We took one egg for those that might NOT know, and really, for a company that is trying to make it in the competitive world of enthusiast PC assembly, those fans not being labelled WORTHLESS is irresponsible. We won't be ordering any other NZTX cases unless we are planning for liquid cooling or they find a better supplier and quit it with the oddball screw placement. We would have labelled this review "White Elephant", but couldn't pass up the Ahab references given our intention to use liquid cooling..., and if you use liquid, this case might work.

Pros: Inexpensive upgrade for aging DDR4 board Easy to install, Booted straight up at 3k, timings 15-17-17-39 on Asus Prime Z270-A board with i7 7700k Nice stickers The base timings for this module is 16-18-18-38, and while it has been said you don't get much OC overhead with these, the XMPs already do you right, and are smooth on the Asus board. If you're looking for superfast results, this is not your mem. You should spend more or consider, this is an old standard, and you get what you pay for, most times. This was an upgrade from the Hyper-X Savage 2x8 modules the board was built with in early 2017. They were quicker, but with their beautiful asymetrical, etched, heat sinks are either impossible or too expensive to find as a pairing option for this four slot board.

Cons: So far none. There aren't heatspreaders, but so far, like the word on the street, unless you are trying to force the tiny headroom for a weak OC, these don't get warm.

Overall Review: Recommended for a cheap increase on sys ram ( I was hitting the cieling on some games that needed more than ~16G addressable memory). NOTA BENE:: Note that the timings and ID sticker is on the other side on my set than on any other ram I have used in the last ten years... so... the front is the back... keep this in mind when you are aligning the sticks with the slots so you don't inadvertently stress the module trying to force it in as the DDR4 slot-gap won't line up if you try to align it just by what side the stickers are on!

Pros: Capable of handling any program without restriction (Able to force ca-raazy ultra settings) on a '2k' monitor (Acer XG270HU 27") Remains cool with reasonable turns on the fans which stay very quiet with the card in low 40's or less for most applications. RGB looks sharp in the TT View 71 Case with the Tempered glass and our custom upgrade to the TT fully ARGB Riing fan kits and Tridentz Ram. EVGA - best Card maker support for NA buyers - located in US. Step-up program, cross shipping options etc. Slight overclock, slightly better lottery RTX Beta (X1) Precision program is pretty slick - like it better than the old one. Not as expensive as some cards ... (but more than the Black) Newegg - reliable, intelligent presentation of products and their facts, best selection, and blistering delivery times for cheap, allows reviewers to be critically informative - helping me to buy this product.

Cons: Like all 2080's it costs more than previous generation top of the line cards. No other real cons other than it is a large, long card, caution should be used when planning to fit this into a compact system Boxes arrived with all the dust of Egypt on them. (Literally felt/looked like they had been in the warehouse at the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' since the end of that film in 1981).

Overall Review: Our Builds with this card model : EVGA RTX 2080 XC Gaming 9700K (Intel) Asus Prime Z390-A G Skill 32G kit (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3000 'Tridentz' [F4-3000C16D-32GTZR] Seasonic FOCUS series SSR-750FM 750W 80 + Gold Power Supply LITE-ON DVD Burner Black SATA Model iHAS124-14 - OEM Acer XG270HU Red 27" 1ms 144HZ WQHD 2K 2560x1440 with G-SYNC Compatible Thermaltake View 71 4-Sided Tempered Glass Vertical GPU Modular SPCC E-ATX Gaming Full Tower Thermaltake CL-F054-PL12SW-A 120mm RGB LED Riing Plus 12 RGB Radiator Fan TT Premium Edition (5 Fan Pack) Regarding EVGA as a Maker : As a frequent builder I appreciate the reliability of their products, and when bad things happen the excellent to even ocassionally over the top customer care I get from EVGA. Not only do they speak in a reasonable version of English I am likely to understand as a North American - I know they are knowledgeable about their items, and at every contact I have had with them they evince an intelligent, patient effort to help while knowing when NOT to waste my time or theirs. Regarding the RTX series Card from NVIDIA RTX is useful to perhaps 1 to 2% of the potential customer base at the moment given the restrictions of being able to game with ray tracing in real time at some of the blistering speeds it needs to be done at not to hold up rendering. As a step up in performance other than that, it is as advertised. Looking at some of the comparative data from testing, it was worth the nickel - and with the X1 Precision program handling fan profiles and so forth, the card performs quietly, coolly, reliably. Regarding Newegg I am averse to risk. That is the reason I use Newegg. Like EVGA, Asus, and Thermaltake, usually they have the best values, and in the few cases where they don't by a few dollars - I can say over the last 20 years, the pittance saved has never been worth the risk. G Sync with 'Compatible' Monitors. Worked with the one we use in the builds listed pretty well with the new drivers current at the time of this writing. You may have to play around with some of the setting/options depending on your specific hardware or the specific program - we were generally pretty happy.

Pros: Looks good with its asymmetrical black heat spreaders XMP profiles function as they should on all Asus Boards I have used it with Primes, Strix, ROG

Cons: None I have encountered

Overall Review: I have not done any overclocking with this memory - so can't answer there, although generally the brand has pretty good results.

Pros: 1) Speed/Ease of Installation The Manual touts the product as instalable in as little as 4 minutes. I am a careful builder that enjoys the process, and had not used this CPU cooler before, so I probably spent about 8 minutes on the first one. After that, I don't think I spent more than about 3 minutes. 2)Safety Made to very responsible standards of safety for the CPU and motherboard it really IS nearly foolproof which helps with speed. Constructed to carefully evade the Ram slot space, and so far beat placement challenges in every scenario we have seen including when putting in the optional 'Pull' Fan. We have almost stopped looking for spatial problems with this cooler because they have already beat us to it. Thinking back to some coolers I used in the Old Nehalem days, installing this cooler put a smile on my face EVERY time. 3)Price/Value While not as effective an air cooler as top level Noctuas, it does come with another set of clips if you want to add a second 'pull' fan which will put it closer in performance. At around half to one third the cost depending on the Noctua, it can get in the same ballpark for a much lower price of admission. Good for a casual or say, mild preset overclock. On this machine the 7700k (NOT delidded at least yet) 25C ambient environment gives a ~33 C Package idle and mild gaming ~40 to 45 C. Heavier gaming will drive that temp up another 10 C in prolonged (several hours) sessions and Total war titles can achieve temperatures over 65 C. Temp measured at 25C ambient with open sided Antec 1200 default fan settings, H7 fan plugged into CPU fan header for Asus Prime Z270 A with settings to performance and CPU set to adaptive in Bios with XMP profiles on (3K Savage Hyperx). 4)Appearance I generally comment on this below in 'cons', but the unit is capped with a understated black cover which makes sense in today's black-predominant mobo coloring. Combined with a white fan - looks sharper than I thought it would, and looks like the pro equipment it is.

Cons: 1) Fan Color We simply have a preference for black fans, and the H7 fan is white. This white fan is actually a semi-plus on some of the newer boards that emphasize black & white color schemes such as the board I put this on first (Asus Prime z270 A), which features white prominently on the IO shield and southbridge heat spreader. While I have this marked as a con, it has to be compared positively to Noctua's latrine brown color schemes. We own one of those and use them for builds for others and wince everytime we put one into a system that is supposed to be combined with 'bling'...Ugh! Cryorig 7y, forgive us for putting this as a con since compared to Noctua its a plus!

Overall Review: Installed the first one on an Asus Prime z270 A, 7700k, EVGA 1080 FTW, 16g DDR4 HyperX Savage 3000 (XMP enabled), Thermaltake Smart 650. Other CPUs installed with this include 6700k, 7600k. In a value/performance/price analysis it is superior to the EVO 212 when we include all of those pros and cons in our estimate. Definitely would recommend, and have already used more than the first one. A new go-to standard for air cooling on systems where bang for buck IS an object. As always Egg delivered - I Must say that the Newegg box that this and an optical drive arrived in was accordioned, pancaked, and ripped, and while it arrived within the maximum allowable time, only just - and AFTER a larger order with many of this system's parts arrived that had been delayed for 24 hours. Nevertheless, the items inside the destroyed box (which we have pictures of) appeared unaffected. The H7 box which is itself a very professional and robust presentation of safety for its contents, was pristine. Once again, the good packing job at the Egg, supercedes what Gorilla Parcel is capable of! 5 eggs on this order, product itself is 5 eggs in our experience for the value.

This was fulfilled by Newegg so no comment on the shipping is appropriate but system requires we report if it was on time (which it was). The item as we have reviewed it is a superior value and professional epitome - it is important to note that we only ordered it originally because we knew that it was fulfilled by Newegg which gave us the confidence to bother trying it out. After the experience, we would consider ordering from Cryorig if we could not find the H7 cooler on Newegg. Good job by both operations. Pleasure doing business with.

Credit for both a good product and delivering as promised on Christmas Eve. Package arrived unblemished and at the end of the UPS delivery day and as ordered. The product itself is as expected and a worthy gift (Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter), and the beautiful packaging was in perfect condition. Good seller, good product. Thanks to Toynk Toys and Newegg.

This is about the seller, not the product (although the product is completely above expectation as well, great mic by Samson). Reliable delivery was trackable within 24 hours of the order, and was here in Southern Arizona from NYC ahead of the estimated time by one day. Prompt email confirmation with the tracking notification and explanation of when the package would begin to be trackable was very helpful, and heartening - and moreover was by reliable and premium delivery service. Package arrived therefor in good condition, ahead of schedule and with the right product. (including color style). Would definitely recommend, and will choose as a vendor again. Thank You 17th Street Photo Supply! ~Scott