Pros: G.skill memory, red heat spreaders. O/C clocked no problem. I got this memory for my new Skylake build. The reason I chose these particular modules is because they were QVL Listed for my motherboard, so I wanted to ensure 100% compatibility. The board I am running these in is a GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 socket 1151. Gigabyte listed this ram as QVL. Only thing is my motherboard shipped with F2 version BIOS. So when I would O/C in the bios with XMP Windows would blue screen. As others have posted, I updated my BIOS to F5 (latest version as of this post) and reset BIOS and hit XMP profile, O/C'ed in one click and has been stable at 3000MHz since. I even ran extended mem and stress tests. Ram is holding fine at rated 3000MHz without any problems, just clicked XMP and was good to go. Really happy with this RAM, debating on buying another set and going up to 32GB. Price and quality is amazing, and happy that my board had these babies on the QVL. Keep up the good work G.Skill

Cons: IT WASN'T FREE :( NO CONS

Overall Review: I recommend this ram to others. G.Skill send me a free kit please :D

Pros: I believe the performance and the drive is OK, its doing what it needs to do, be fast and reliable is all I want. That sums it up. Tested on the laptop that has a SATA III 6Gb/s port I can comment to the max theoretical speeds of the SSD of 450/450MB/s read/write. So I ran two different types benchmarking software and got two different results. According to Kingston you are only supposed to use ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.47 to get the correct results. I did this and it showed speeds of 440MB/s for both read & write. So speeds are as advertised. Also my drive came with firmware version 583ABBF0 out of the box. Kingston has the old firmware on their page. 525ABBF0. Make sure you do not downgrade or your royally rimmed. Not sure why they leave the old firmware up on the page, that's a big NO NO!!!

Cons: Finally last but not least I installed the Kingstong SSD Toolbox software, (v1.08) from their website because I wanted to monitor my drives health. I thought it would probably be like the Samsung Magician Software that I had on my 840EVO drive that lets you monitor the drive status, health, etc. Well so far unlike the Samsung Magician software, the Kingston gives you basic information, health status, things like that. It won't let you upgrade firmware if the drive is in use. You have to boot from another drive in order to update the firmware (downside). There are also no optimization tools or benchmarking tools. Also, for some reason this darn software keeps on opening up to full screen on every boot of the computer. It doesn't run minimized to task-bar like the Magician software by Samsung. It always runs full screen and you have to close the darn thing which gives you a stupid message box "this software will continue to run in the background" ... seriously? I cannot find it in Windows Startup folder, nor does MSCONFIG show it in the startup routines so I have no idea how the hell this program boots up. I was hoping I could turn the auto start-up to off and just run the program manually when needed, but it's not even in the startup folder nor is it in the MSCONFIG startup, ridiculous. I cannot find anything on Google or forums about this, so this means I am going to have to uninstall the hardware monitoring software and then reinstall it at a later date if they do ever fix this problem or if I want to check the status of my SSD drive, which is so stupid. I wish I could leave the program installed and let it run in the background minimized or at least turn off auto startup and just run it when needed. So I'm dropping a point for the poor software.

Overall Review: Update: 5/5/2015 Just spoke with Kingston customer support. They didn't seem to be quite interested in my question but confirmed with me that the Kingston SSD Software is meant to open up like that at every Windows boot. I mentioned to them that its very annoying and other manufacturers of SSD drives have better software (like Samsung) that have their software run in the background, minimized at every Windows boot and not have it open Window that needs to be closed manually. The chat rep seemed 'annoyed' but said she would pass the message along to her dev team so hopefully in a next version or two of the software they will change it so it runs minimized in the background. For now, if this bothers you, just don't install the Kingston Toolbox software to avoid the problem. But that sucks because then you cannot monitor the health or the temperature or the read/writes, S.M.A.R.T., etc, step up your game on the software Kingston. Intel and Samsung and Crucial are doing a much better job.