Patriot Viper 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model PVT36G1333LLK

Pros: Just rating this memory... Price is cheap and I never had any problem with it so far, so i gave it 5 eggs!

Cons: Should've just painted the heatsink BLACK!

Pros: been runnin for 3 days at 9-9-9-24 1600mhz at 1.64volt. heatsinks look cool under blue uv light and are very functional. planning on running memtest but i expect good results. i have not received any BSOD. 3 2gig sticks for 105$ is a great price.

Cons: none, if i receive my 25$ rebate in timely manner

Overall Review: i owned dual channel ddr2 patriot mem 800mhz for 3 month before purchasing this for my new i7. that mem worked great. just make sure u set the correct volt of 1.64-1.65 for this mem

Pros: great performing memory. overclocks easily. lifetime warranty.

Cons: none. blue color maybe? lol.

Pros: Dropped right into my Gigabyte motherboard with Intel's x58 chipset. XMP read the clock timings, didn't have to do a thing extra.

Cons: The heatsinks are tall, might interfere with a very large CPU cooler, depending on the motherboard.

Pros: For the six hours it was working, I was very happy.

Cons: Six hours after installing the memory, one of the sticks went bad. Then I wasn't very happy. RMA time.

Overall Review: I love Patriot USB memory sticks which is why I gave this RAM a chance in the first place. Too bad it didn't work out. In the past I always bought Kingston memory for my computers, guess I should stick with them. Darn rebate swayed me.

Pros: Price Patriot warranty low latency XMP profile Heat sinks are attached well, do their job

Cons: None at all

Overall Review: So far so good. I went with Patriot after using Ultra DDR2 overclocking memory for years, which is made by Patriot and Elixer, and never had a problem. The O/C tests on this model Viper RAM were only slightly lower than Crucials and in some configurations were better because of the low timings. The heat spreaders on mine were nice and tight. Ran Prime for a bit to test the heat and they remained nice and cool. On an i7 build with no XMP profile, they booted right at at the default 1.5v at 7-7-7-20, they worked at the same low latency without upping the DRAM voltage on a p6T6 WS Revolution board.Since I knew my board worked with many Patriot 6gig kits, I went with them. I previously dealt with Patriot with some Ultra DDR2 sticks I have in another build. I had some boot issues when trying to use the DIMMS in certain slots, only worked when specific DIMMS were in a specific slot/bank. Patriot took the memory back, gave me 4 sticks that were from the same batch and worked great.

Pros: Its memory and it works as expected. No installation issues. It looks good

Cons: The heat spreaders are just held on with double sided tape and 2 of the 6 were coming off when my package arrived.

Pros: Any decent motherboard can recognize the auto-config data on these things.

Cons: heat spreader is a bit cheesy.

Overall Review: I put these in an ASRock X58 Extreme mobo and it recognized the timing settings needed automatically. If you have anything other than a Core i7 processor, you probably shouldn't bother with DDR3. Even the Core 2 still relies on the old Frontside Bus, which cannot take advantage of the bandwidth of a lot of DDR2, let alone DDR3. So for Core i7, go for these, Core 2, stick to DDR2 and save some money.