The RAM is very quick, good looking, and I use nowhere near its full capacity even with heavy gaming and digital music production. Being CL18 you can definitely get faster RAM but for the price you'd be hard pressed to find a deal like this. 10/10 for me, G Skill has outdone themselves on value here.

Item was defective. Although BIOS on my Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra MB configured this to run at the advertised speed of 3600 MHz (XMP Profile enabled) Windows would lock up repeated times on boot up. Only way I could get Windows to boot was to turn XMP Profile off, but then memory would only run at 2667 MHz (its not my motherboard because the same model memory I purchased from another seller several months ago works fine at the rated speed with XMP Profile enabled). Returning this and already processed an exchange. If I have issues with that one, will opt to return and buy this from same vendor I purchased the previous one from. Will update my review once the replacement memory arrives and is installed.

UPDATE : I received the replacement RAM and they seem to work good ... for now. I have a previous set of this memory already in my system that I had purchased a few months ago from another seller/site (NewEgg). The ones from NewEgg were Samsung IC's. These new ones were Hynix (There are actually only a few actual memory chip manufacturers : Samsung, Hynix and Micron to name a few). The settings in the XMP profile were similar, except tRFC (This is the the Row Refresh rate in clock cycles ... i.e. the number of clock cycles required to refresh a memory row). The lower, the better performance. The Samsung showed 661 (which is not all that great). But these Hynix showed 991! The BIOS will then configure the XMP profile for all chips to the slowest setting of any one chip, so this forced the Samsung to also have a tRFC setting of 991. Benchmark programs will show a difference between 661 and 991, though in reality, the difference would not likely be noticed in real world apps. Still I could not understand why G.Skill would package these with the same identical model number, but with different IC's and different settings (ok, one setting). As I said, probably not a noticeable difference in real world setting but it is always better to have identical RAM in your system if you have multiple RAM sticks for stability. I will increase my review to 4 stars from 1, but not 5, mainly because I initially received a defective set; and 2) these are not quite identical to the same model I had purchase just a few months ago. On the plus side, G.Skill offers a lifetime warranty (and the warranty center is only maybe 35 miles from my home). So, here's hoping for the best!

Added to vacant slots alongside my older 2x8 DIMMs

Not RGB but that's okay"¦.. the memory is in working order. Tested it on windows, it's pretty dang fast"¦. And we'll yeah"¦. That's about it lol

Computer update went fine. No problems