G.Skill TridentZ RGB DDR4 memory review

Posted on: 02/21/2017 04:08 PM

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Glowy, nice speed as well and voltage is pretty nice too or well I guess since I'm not too knowledgeable about DDR3 and DDR4 power requirements and differences.

I do remember that OCZ DDR 1800 kit which was the first DDR3 memory I had though those ran at a voltage of 2.0 and were certified and covered by warranty up to 2.1, still running in the old machine which is now used by my sister (Mostly unchanged aside from a GPU upgrade to a 7970Ghz) so yeah almost 10 years and counting heh.

Used to think timing was of more importance too but that seems to have been a bit incorrect after looking into it a bit more and it's something of a combination of latency and the memory clock speed giving a overall performance result and now withDDR4 we're almost up to 4.2 Ghz as a official supported speed as of the z270 motherboard if I'm not mixing things up completely again.


Wonder what DDR5 will bring, guessing there's a cap somewhere on these things too similar to CPU's having trouble breaching 5Ghz and die shrinks probably have diminishing returns too so it'll be interesting to see.
(HBM on die CPU RAM? Eh I guess that's not a solution either though CPU's with integrated GPU's might have some use for that or just faster RAM in general.)

For gaming I suppose faster RAM also has a bit of a cap although there's always going to be that one game (Like Fallout 4) showing a irregular performance boost heh.


EDIT: Ah I was curious on how RGB LED would be configurable on a memory stick, guess it's not something they'll go into more detail on though aside from something with motherboard compatibility mentioned a bit above this particular quote.

(Along with some software which is currently in development.)

Posted on: 02/21/2017 04:38 PM

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Thanks for the review! Is there any chance that we could get some gaming numbers from these? Particularly open world games like the Witcher 3 or Fallout 4. A lot of people don't believe that memory speeds matter for gaming, it would be nice to have some concrete numbers (preferably 95% frame times) from a reliable website.

Posted on: 02/21/2017 05:32 PM

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TL;DR you pay more for some diodes and the blink factor

Posted on: 02/21/2017 05:48 PM

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Completely agreed. Higher bus RAMs make a big difference in CPU bound situations.

I got a big increase in CSGO after I moved from 1600mhz to 2400mhz. There's too many "ram doesn't matter" content out there that makes people assume it plays an insignificant role.

Posted on: 02/21/2017 05:48 PM

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***correction*** Page 4

Designed with a custom 10-layer PCB and hand-picked IC chips to enhance overclocking performance, the Trident Z RGB series is capable of reaching speeds of DDR4-4266MHz.