Joined on 08/22/12
G.SKILL for the real skill.
Pros: Fast. Pretentious looks. Low profile. Runs cool with low latency for 8GB modules. Plenty of space for upgrading.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: 2133mhz profile was easy to select. Installed in a AMD system running a Crosshair V Formula-Z and an FX-8350 BE (Vishera) CPU.
Love the crosshair series.
Pros: Easy to update BIOS with USB flash back before I bought and dropped a Ryzen 5000 series chip into it with only PSU hooked up via 24 pin rail. Easy UEFI and overclocks components very reliably. Just a tip, set your FCLK or fabric clock to exactly half that of your ram speed to ensure best interconnect between your components. Setting it to auto does the job too but hard setting it doesn't allow the FCLK to adjust itself. RGB is nice and fairly easy to adjust. Wireless is very strong and gets full signal from 2 floors away from the router.
Cons: None that have emerged thus far.
Overall Review: Great board from a great company. Strong feature set and is easy to use.
Does the job
Pros: Nice extention to run from your PSU cable to a flush mounted ssd on the back plate of a computer case.
Cons: I hate "ketchup and mustard" colored cables. Really wish they were black but this is simply cosmetic and isn't seen in the back of my case.
Overall Review: Nice extention, good length options and does it's job as advertised. Wish cables were black or sleeved.
Easy to use.
Pros: No software required, just works. Plug and play solution for moving my game files from several smaller ssd's from an old computer to a new ssd for a new computer. Averaged at about 200 mb/s with highs near 300 mb/s and lows being 95 mb/s. Got the job done.
Cons: None to report.
Overall Review: Plug and play and seems fast enough for my needs.
Outstanding CPU
Pros: Very fast and snappy. Upgraded from an aging i7 4790k and the difference is night and day with gaming and everyday use. Stays cool, around 26c at idel and low/mid 50s under load. Using artic grizzly kryonout paste with a corsair capellix 360mm AIO at low or balanced fan/pump curve.
Cons: Scarcity, took a while to get my hands on this.
Overall Review: Awesome performance, easy install and stays cool.
Great ram
Pros: Esthetics are pleasing with the light defuser over the RGB strip. The brushed black and silver matches my crosshair viii hero perfectly. Very easy to overclock and getting advertised speed is as easy as enabling D.O.C.P. in the BIOS with timings (14-15-15-35) being manually reduced to (14-14-14-30) while still being 100% reliable at 3600mhz.
Cons: These dims are only single rank (memory modules on one side), not duel rank (memory modules on both sides). Not to be confused by single or duel channel. Lower price difference from their counter parts is nice but I wish ranking was an advertised piece as there's a notable performance gain with duel rank and don't know ranking until their in hand.
Overall Review: Great looking ram and outstanding performance despite the single rank feature though the ability to easily tighten the timings as far as I did makes up a lot of the difference in performance without duel rank modules.