Pros: Beautiful looking RAM, very impressive timings for DDR-3600 (16-19-19-39)

Cons: The styling is highly subjective... I like it, but some might find it gaudy. The RGB lights are quite bright by default; consider toning down with software. It's also kind of expensive for DDR4-3600.

Overall Review: I think this was the overall best 16x2GB kit I could find as far as specs go; very impressive CL 16 timings for DDR4-3600, so the premium gold/diamond look was just an afterthought on my purchase. My Asus Z370 board was able to recognize the XMP profile no problem and it has run flawlessly.

Pros: It looks and feels nice, works fine. I haven't tested the actual power efficiency but I'm sure it's great.

Cons: The PCIe cables are divided into two sets, with each modular cable containing an 6+2-pin and 6-pin connector (a few inches apart). I happen to have a 980 Ti which requires two 8-pin connections so I'm forced to clutter what was meant to be a really clean build, with extra pointless 6 pin connectors hanging out. I'm debating returning it because this is so silly. There should be individual cables or 6+2 for every connector. It also came with two sets of old school molex 4-pin cables and two sets of SATA, even though the power supply itself has labels for 3 x SATA and only 1 x peripheral. Nobody is going to be using so many peripheral cables on this thing. It's a waste of material and I was shorted SATA power cables that may actually be used.

Pros: This case has amazing build quality and aesthetics; it feels like an elegant work of art. The position of the dual windows is incredibly unique and eye catching. I've never seen another case offer these perspectives on your components. It’s all polished aluminum and screams top notch engineering and construction all over. The inclusion of a slim ODD drive slot is perfect; it doesn't add significant bulk to the chassis if you’re not going to use it, but still gives people an option who want to use this aging feature. The ability to pull out each side panel is incredibly helpful when assembling or swapping out hardware, but a bit cumbersome after initial installation since you'll likely have fans and various cables that will need unplugged before removing. The dimensions allow for the massive height of my EVGA 980 Ti Classified and plenty of room for a 240mm radiator or tall CPU fan; something I was struggling with in other similar sized models. The case is slightly raised off the ground to allow additional ventilation from the bottom with an upside down mounted PSU. Cable management options are amazing with slots and openings all over the chassis to route them into the main chamber from below. Just make sure you mount your power supply early and plan your cabling, I foolishly did this last and the motherboard, radiators, front control panels and fans all got in the way making it much more complicated than it should have been.

Cons: Despite the long list, these cons are pretty minor but they do exist. I've never seen a perfect case. First of all, it's expensive as hell for a MicroATX case. I had a pretty high budget when building my rig with this case, I just wanted a high end, compact (but not ITX compact) system, and I firmly believe this is the best MicroATX case on the market. However, whether it's worth the money or not is questionable, depending on your needs and enthusiasm towards aesthetics and design in a case. My biggest complaint is there's no ventilation in the front. This is a bit odd and was perhaps a cosmetic choice, but I think the option for a large front intake fan with the same style of ventilation holes on the sides would have looked just fine and made this case almost perfect. If I have a 240mm radiator exhausting on the right and a video card in the lower PCIe slot on the left, there's very little room for intake air in the entire case. Using one video card in the top PCIe slot leaves room for two 120 mm intake fans on the left side (or at least open air slots), but the fans would leave SLI not possible (and if you don’t care about dual video cards, you might want to consider mini-ITX). There's also a built in exhaust fan in the rear which is nice, and a peculiar intake fan in the lower chamber of the front, but it doesn't have much air to pull in, so I'm not sure why it's there. The bars between the openings for expansion cards are thicker than usual, and made it difficult to fit a full size DIsplayport connector through the notch. I had to slightly lean the graphics card to make it fit. This could perhaps be resolved with a lower profile Display Port connection though. There’s only 2 front USB 3.0 ports. This is fine with me because I won't even use them, but for the price they could have added maybe a couple 2.0's as well. Perhaps it was a design choice. Personally I think it looks better like this, so not a real complaint, just an observation. The drive mounts seem like an odd choice for a case of this caliber; three 3.5” and one 2.5”. I would assume people in the market for a high end case like this want more than one SSD and quite possibly no 3.5” HDDs. I simply used a single 3.5” to 2x2.5”bracket to hold my two SSDs and all my other storage is on my home NAS so it didn’t matter much, but I would rather see at least two or three built in 2.5” drives and less 3.5”s. (or some hybrid option without requiring external adapters). The built in dust filters are absurdly complex to remove. They each require a two piece plastic prong to be removed from each corner, so taking off the two filters from just one side panel leaves you with 12 little plastic pieces. I don’t’ know why they couldn’t have a quick release for cleaning purposes. I guess being able to remove the whole panel sort of alleviates this issue though.

Overall Review: Did I mention this case looks and feels amazing?