Pros: This triple channel kit from OCZ is an absolutely amazing product for the price... and I say that having paid about $40 more for this kit roughly a month ago. So at $119 it is a steal. Being that it is rated to run at 1600 MHz, it has a number of potential benefits being that its price for the speed/timings is so good: First, you will have more flexibility in choosing memory speeds while overclocking because of the increased headroom (though some i7 studies seem to suggest real world impact -outside of benchmarks- on higher memory speeds makes little difference with the i7 being that its memory bandwidth is already so high); and second, you can run this memory at lower than rated speeds with substantially less voltage to the DRAM bus (in my case, I was able to run this memory at between 1400 and 1450MHz at 7-7-7-20 at 1.51106 volts.. the lowest possible setting on the Ramapage II Ext.) Simply put, the price for this memory kit's performance is phenomenal. Also looks really good.

Cons: If for some reason you happen to be afraid of entering your BIOS and messing with the settings therein, you may not like having to manually enter the timings to get what this kit is rated for. My system if left on [AUTO] will default to 9-9-9-24 (to me having to change this is not a con). The biggest con for me was that it absolutely will not run at a full 1600MHz with 7-7-7-24 timings at 1.65v. It does however get really close. Anything above roughly 1565MHz and my system will under no circumstances stabilize. At a baseclock of 194 and DDR3 memory speeds of 1555MHz with 7-7-7-20 timings, my i7 920 will run at close to 4.1GHz (turbo enabled) without any issues (over 20 hours of Prime95 with no errors). At a baseclock of 195 and DDR3 memory speeds of 1563MHz with 7-7-7-24 timings, it is unable to pass even a couple minutes of P95. No, it is not issues with CPU or QPI/DRAM Core voltage, as the only setting that needs to be changed to arrive at stability is lowering the memory speed

Overall Review: I have also tested this with multiple other KNOWN stable settings on my system, all of which returned the same results. One being a stock i7920 setup running at 2.66GHz.. with the only settings in the BIOS changed being memory speed of 1600MHz and DRAM Bus Voltage at 1.65 (I have tried this with both a 4.8 and 6.4 QPI transfer rate).. fails prime 95 instantly. Same settings with lower memory speed runs absolutely fine. Running the i7920 at a Bclock of 157 for a mild overclock of 3.14GHz and memory speeds of 1574 fail instantly, where lowering the memory speed again completely solves the problem. Contrary to what one other [perhaps no so nice :)]reviewer seems to believe, some of us have done our homework, kept detailed logs of all settings and results, and come to our conclusions based upon actual evidence. I know without a doubt that my particular kit will not for any reason run at its rated specs (maybe just my kit). This is the only reason I am giving it 4 out of 5. Great purchase!