Pros: only minimal effort required to get these to work at their rated speed. been working fine for 3 years. very stable. not had any memory problems the whole time.

Cons: nothing specifically related to the ram itself. see other thoughts

Overall Review: it might be different now but when i got these most motherboards and processors would default to 1600 or lower for any higher speed ram, so i did have to manually set them up in the bios, both the frequency and timings. didn't have any trouble making them work at rated specs though; running dual channel at 1866MHz 9-10-9-28. other relevant system specs: gigabyte ga-970a-d3 (rev 1.4) amd am3+ fx-4100 quad core; OC @ 4GHz amd radeon hd 7790 1GB GDDR5

Pros: -cant really say anything positive about a drive that loses data

Cons: speeds were fairly mediocre for a usb 3.0 drive. but i was more concerned with capacity than speed so it wasnt a big problem. A little over a year after purchase i started having problems accessing certain folders. for the first minute or so after plugging in, the drive would behave as though nothing is wrong. it reports the correct size (which was about 52 GB used, btw) and even now, i can run a disk check and windows reports no errors. once i attempt to access many of the folders beyond the top directory, however, it starts to hang. after that, windows throws an error saying that the location does not exist, or if i attempt to run the disk check, windows says it cant continue because it is unable to access the drive. it also shows the drive as having 0 diskspace at this point. then if i unplug for about 1 minute, then plug it back in, its back to acting as though nothing is wrong, showing the top directories and sizes just fine. was only able to copy about 6 GB off of it, the remaining 46 GB has apparently been lost. the drive fails every time i attempt to access or copy any of the remaining folders.

Overall Review: fortunately for me, all of the data that was lost was redundant (afaik). that doesnt excuse the failure though. still, this is the first time ive ever had a flash drive fail on me. dont think ill be buying anymore drives from this product line.

Pros: they look pretty cool

Cons: unable to reach rated speeds, even with very loose timings. system would not boot above 1600mhz and even then there was definitely system instability. I had all kind of weird behavior from these things while testing them. a couple of times the screen would stay dark and motherboard would issue a beep code indicating it couldnt find the graphics card. another time my bios disappeared altogether and the motherboard reinstalled from a built in backup! time is a fairly expensive commodity for me right now, so despite the incredible shell shocker price i got them at I decided to return for a refund since im not entirely sure it isnt a compatibility issue and dont have time to figure it out.

Overall Review: I currently have 2 sticks of identically spec'd sniper ram running at 1866 and with tighter than advertised timings. No problems whatsoever with those. I know its kinda hit or miss when combining different sticks but even alone the ripjaws sticks wouldnt reach their rated speed or timings. i couldnt find any solid info about my motherboard compatability with this ram but heres my system specs just in case. gigabyte GA-970a-D3 am3+ (rev. 1.4) amd fx-4100 3.6Ghz quadcore processor amd radeon hd 7790 1 gb 8GB (2x4gb) gskill sniper PC3 14900 ddr3 1866mhz ram

Pros: love the modular cables and the sleeves on cables. has all the power i need for a medium range gaming machine. havent had any issues. its running strong 6 years later.

Cons: cant think of any.

Overall Review: got this in early 2007 with my first computer build. over the past 6 years it has run almost continuously with no issues whatsoever. recently updated that machine with a new motherboard, processor, ram, and gfx card to bring it up to speed but the psu is running fine.

Pros: lightweight, small, touchscreen works nicely. works for school, writing papers, checking school related websites and such. I like the overall aesthetic design. cheap, but in all honesty you can get a much more powerful system for a lot cheaper if you can go without the touchscreen.

Cons: Think your getting an 1800 MHz processor? try halving that! the cooling systems in this thing are a complete failure. in fact, theyre almost non-existent by design. you will always be running an overheated processor throttled at 800 MHz. you can forget about any kind of light gaming (or any other use of the HD 4000 for that matter) on this thing. even youtube videos will send the temps into the 80s, throttling the processor. not sure what good it does to only have 1800mhz while idling on the destop, but that's what this thing does. oh and the battery lasts about 2.5 hours. also by default the wifi gets throttled when its unplugged. I had to mess with the power settings for internet to be fast enough to be usable when unplugged. oh and the OS is appearently still in beta and somewhat buggy. not sure when the fully functional windows 8 is going to be released. theres an 8.1 preview available but its even buggier than 8.0 so far.

Overall Review: the primary reason I got this was for school. and for that it does its job well, so long as I have a power socket available for long study sessions. the power brick is tiny and extremely portable. I had hoped to be able to do some very light gaming when taking breaks but even at minimum settings most games will not run well at 800 MHz. ive gotten SimCity 4 to work ok on it though. the only reason ive kept it is because it fulfills its primary school related functions. unless asus offers to replace the cooling system with something designed to actually cool, I wont be looking at any of their products when this thing eventually burns out from running hot all the time.

Pros: 1866 ram runs fine, though i did have to set it up manually. got it on black friday so at least i feel like i got my moneys worth.

Cons: my biggest issue is that post is slow if i have my 1TB usb drive plugged in and furthermore if im loading vista, i get a minute long black screen between post and the OS loading screen. its not so bad with windows 8 and the problem goes away altogether if i unplug the drive for bootup, but i didnt have this problem at all with the old socket 939 motherboard that I just replaced. as mentioned has quick settings for different ram speeds but it doesnt work properly so i had to do some research and setup the timing manually for my 1866 ram also the software that comes with it is not very good, the monitoring software doesnt even show all the fans i have though speed fan doesnt have any issues. also the hybrid efi touch bios program is garbage. i wasnt able to access a lot of the bios functions with it.

Overall Review: just to be clear, this motherboard does not have uefi. not marking it off for this since it doesnt say it does in the description, however if you look it up on google you may find conflicting information so you need to know that this is rev1.4 and only rev3.0 and higher have uefi. it would be nice if newegg could start providing this kind of information. my build: MB: GA-970A-D3 rev1.4 ram: Gskill sniper ddr3 1866 proc: am3+ fx4100 Quad-core 3.6ghz gfx: xfx geforce gt240