with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so the last time
I covered anything from gskill was back in December
2012 when they sent their rip jaw Z quad
Channel kit over to me for some RAM disc testing at the time I did a very casual
unboxing in a chair in my living room with my son and my cat in my lap uh
accompanying me and I didn't really make much of a fuss about the product cuz to
me I was just like it's R this time I
feel like I owe them a bit more Fanfare
because that 32 gig kit or those 32 G
kits they sent two of them of 1866 RAM has been some of the most Rock Solid
memory either slick or I have ever encountered compared to other high
capacity kits that we have around the office it is a dream to work with and we
use it on every test bench mainstream Intel Enthusiast Intel and even AMD the
problem is that the stuff we have is from back when 1866 RAM was the bees
knes it's a year and a half old skew and with the way high-speed memory prices
have changed since then DDR3 2133 and
2400 MHz kits are much more accessible
and we're starting to get a lot of requests from viewers to use higher speed memory in our testing it's just
that we hate using all the other stuff so I reached out to gskill about getting
eight sticks of their DDR3
2400 MHz RAM I chose their 64 gig kit
because the way that sticks get jumbled around between test benches it's the
only way that we'll really know that each of them is hand validated to
operate correctly with each other across all the benches and as an extra bonus we
happen to have an x79 Deluxe assus board
which is one of the only boards that this kit is validated to work in with
all eight dims at the same time running at 2400 MHz so that'll be fun if we ever
want to play around with it anyway with that history lesson out of the way let's
get into the product itself this is one of the most luxuriously packaged kits I
have ever seen the outer box has gold
lettering and the individual serial numbers of every single stick inside and
when you open it up you get two individual boxes Each of which you open
up to find a little clipon memory fan that uses two 50 mm fans to keep your
RAM cool in the past I used to say that these RAM coolers were kind of stupid
and I still don't care for the added bulk of them in our test system here
they made it impossible to install a graphics card in the top slot but I've
seen them make a difference to RAM stability so if you're going to push
these sticks to 2400 MHz or even overvolt them past the rated 1.65 volts
I would recommend installing them one bit of constructive criticism for gskill
is I'd like to see them terminated in three pin connectors so I can easily
hook them up to a fan controller anyway after that each stick is individually
wrapped in a protective foam wrapping and if you've ever seen a rip jaw Z
module then once we get it out of the foam they'll look pretty familiar to you
uh we use them all the time so the saw teeth styled top of the heat sink
doesn't stand out to me much anymore and I think there are more eye-catching
memory kits out there like with you know LED lighting and stuff but for these it
was more about the practicality of them than necessarily the pure looks the RAM
supports two different 2400 MHz XMP profiles or you can set things up
manually I'm planning on using them in a Gigabyte x79 up4 motherboard for my
upcoming Mac Pro killer Hackintosh guide so I went ahead and installed the kits
in there and while I wasn't able to run 2400 MHz with all eight modules in which
G skill told me I wasn't going to be able to do 2133 MHz was easy so even
just in any random board these are definitely an improvement over our old
gold sticks and I did run around and throw them in a couple different boards
around the office and I'm getting that same easy no tweaks required for basic
stability operation that I have come to expect which is a huge relief so now we
can bring you guys higher memory speeds in our benchmarks I told gskill that we
don't really do memory showcases anymore and that I was only going to use the
memory in our Hackintosh guide as well as on our test benches so they'll
probably be a bit surprised to see this but given how little I talk about the
gear that we use behind the scenes here I thought that this was an opportunity
to not only showcase this particular RAM kit but also give you some insight into
our testing procedures and our experience with all the different
products that we get to touch as well I hope you guys enjoyed it um so I think
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