G.SKILL 64GB DDR3 2400MHz RAM Kit
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,135 words · ~5 min read
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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so the last time
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I covered anything from gskill was back in December
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2012 when they sent their rip jaw Z quad
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Channel kit over to me for some RAM disc testing at the time I did a very casual
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unboxing in a chair in my living room with my son and my cat in my lap uh
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accompanying me and I didn't really make much of a fuss about the product cuz to
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me I was just like it's R this time I
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feel like I owe them a bit more Fanfare
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because that 32 gig kit or those 32 G
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kits they sent two of them of 1866 RAM has been some of the most Rock Solid
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memory either slick or I have ever encountered compared to other high
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capacity kits that we have around the office it is a dream to work with and we
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use it on every test bench mainstream Intel Enthusiast Intel and even AMD the
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problem is that the stuff we have is from back when 1866 RAM was the bees
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knes it's a year and a half old skew and with the way high-speed memory prices
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have changed since then DDR3 2133 and
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2400 MHz kits are much more accessible
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and we're starting to get a lot of requests from viewers to use higher speed memory in our testing it's just
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that we hate using all the other stuff so I reached out to gskill about getting
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eight sticks of their DDR3
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2400 MHz RAM I chose their 64 gig kit
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because the way that sticks get jumbled around between test benches it's the
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only way that we'll really know that each of them is hand validated to
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operate correctly with each other across all the benches and as an extra bonus we
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happen to have an x79 Deluxe assus board
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which is one of the only boards that this kit is validated to work in with
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all eight dims at the same time running at 2400 MHz so that'll be fun if we ever
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want to play around with it anyway with that history lesson out of the way let's
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get into the product itself this is one of the most luxuriously packaged kits I
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have ever seen the outer box has gold
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lettering and the individual serial numbers of every single stick inside and
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when you open it up you get two individual boxes Each of which you open
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up to find a little clipon memory fan that uses two 50 mm fans to keep your
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RAM cool in the past I used to say that these RAM coolers were kind of stupid
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and I still don't care for the added bulk of them in our test system here
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they made it impossible to install a graphics card in the top slot but I've
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seen them make a difference to RAM stability so if you're going to push
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these sticks to 2400 MHz or even overvolt them past the rated 1.65 volts
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I would recommend installing them one bit of constructive criticism for gskill
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is I'd like to see them terminated in three pin connectors so I can easily
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hook them up to a fan controller anyway after that each stick is individually
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wrapped in a protective foam wrapping and if you've ever seen a rip jaw Z
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module then once we get it out of the foam they'll look pretty familiar to you
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uh we use them all the time so the saw teeth styled top of the heat sink
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doesn't stand out to me much anymore and I think there are more eye-catching
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memory kits out there like with you know LED lighting and stuff but for these it
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was more about the practicality of them than necessarily the pure looks the RAM
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supports two different 2400 MHz XMP profiles or you can set things up
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manually I'm planning on using them in a Gigabyte x79 up4 motherboard for my
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upcoming Mac Pro killer Hackintosh guide so I went ahead and installed the kits
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in there and while I wasn't able to run 2400 MHz with all eight modules in which
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G skill told me I wasn't going to be able to do 2133 MHz was easy so even
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just in any random board these are definitely an improvement over our old
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gold sticks and I did run around and throw them in a couple different boards
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around the office and I'm getting that same easy no tweaks required for basic
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stability operation that I have come to expect which is a huge relief so now we
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can bring you guys higher memory speeds in our benchmarks I told gskill that we
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don't really do memory showcases anymore and that I was only going to use the
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memory in our Hackintosh guide as well as on our test benches so they'll
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probably be a bit surprised to see this but given how little I talk about the
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gear that we use behind the scenes here I thought that this was an opportunity
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to not only showcase this particular RAM kit but also give you some insight into
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our testing procedures and our experience with all the different
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products that we get to touch as well I hope you guys enjoyed it um so I think
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