Conclusion
Checking up the price for F3-2400C11D-16GAB via geizhals, we see offers starting at 133 Euros excluding shipping across the EU. Looking around in the DDR3-2400 category, we see Team Group and G.Skill themselves offer 16 GB kits with better specs for roughly the same price, hardly making Ares the best possible purchase. Unless, of course, the plan is to fit the memory under a large CPU heatsink and/or run it at DDR3-2600 or 2666, of which 2400C10 kits mentioned above are usually not capable of.
Overall, the new 16GB versions rated 2400C11 turned out to be a solid product with one or two special features. Those going for the Ares series can have a compact and fast kit, and those looking to overclock past 1300MHz might have a cheap candidate. Apart from subjective styling nitpicks, the only bad thing we can say about the 2400C11 is a relatively weak overclocking performance in the range between 1100 and 1200MHz, which is primarily dictated by Hynix MFR memory chips in use.
Award
The 2x8 GB of G.Skill Ares DDR3-2400 CL11 gets an ocaholic rating of
four stars out of five.
Kingston HyperX Beast 4x8GB DDR3-2400 CL11 1.65V Review 