so today I'm unboxing more of a series than a specific product this is the
g-skill rip Jaws series now these didn't just launch but what's special about
this particular RAM is that it is optimized for the core i5 and they've
actually recently made some revisions so a lot of the rip Jaws SKS have now been
changed over to 1.6 volts rather than
1.65 volts now what that means as I'm and I'm going to start opening the box
here while I explain this is that you can run them at their rated speed at a
much lower voltage which means less heat and of course longer term reliability
now the core i5 is actually a little bit
less resilient than the core i7 the old core i7 on LGA 1366 to high voltages on
the memory controller so that is why gskill even though it's still specked
for 1.65 on the Intel side has actually
gone and reduce the voltage even further by more aggressively binning their chips
now in terms of binning the RAM chip gskill modules are actually known to
reach speeds quite a bit higher than what they're rated for but these
particular ones are DDR 3600 cl7 modules
and they're quite reasonably priced now let's have a quick look at the RAM
spreader itself first of all you can see it's got like a black white and red
theme very Canadian I really like it of course and then on the other side you've
got your sticker do not remove warranty void if removed and it lists your specs
there as well so this is a 4 gig kit and I already mentioned the uh voltage and
the speeds I just want to have a quick look down the heat spreader here so you
can see that the way they've positioned the heat spreader is such that when you
have it actually installed in a computer heat is able to dissipate up the tunnel
sort of here like that okay I realize it's kind of trivial it's not going to
make a huge difference in cooling but I've seen some pretty stupid RAM spreaders where the fins come out this
way and they block air from actually flowing naturally as the heat rises off
the memory module that said it's debatable how much of a difference a
heat spr makes but these do look really cool when you install them in your
system thank you for checking out my video unboxing of the gskill rip Jaws
memory