G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 RAM Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
·
445 words · ~2 min read
0:00
so today I'm unboxing more of a series than a specific product this is the
0:04
g-skill rip Jaws series now these didn't just launch but what's special about
0:09
this particular RAM is that it is optimized for the core i5 and they've
0:13
actually recently made some revisions so a lot of the rip Jaws SKS have now been
0:18
changed over to 1.6 volts rather than
0:21
1.65 volts now what that means as I'm and I'm going to start opening the box
0:25
here while I explain this is that you can run them at their rated speed at a
0:30
much lower voltage which means less heat and of course longer term reliability
0:36
now the core i5 is actually a little bit
0:40
less resilient than the core i7 the old core i7 on LGA 1366 to high voltages on
0:46
the memory controller so that is why gskill even though it's still specked
0:50
for 1.65 on the Intel side has actually
0:53
gone and reduce the voltage even further by more aggressively binning their chips
0:57
now in terms of binning the RAM chip gskill modules are actually known to
1:02
reach speeds quite a bit higher than what they're rated for but these
1:05
particular ones are DDR 3600 cl7 modules
1:09
and they're quite reasonably priced now let's have a quick look at the RAM
1:12
spreader itself first of all you can see it's got like a black white and red
1:16
theme very Canadian I really like it of course and then on the other side you've
1:20
got your sticker do not remove warranty void if removed and it lists your specs
1:24
there as well so this is a 4 gig kit and I already mentioned the uh voltage and
1:29
the speeds I just want to have a quick look down the heat spreader here so you
1:34
can see that the way they've positioned the heat spreader is such that when you
1:38
have it actually installed in a computer heat is able to dissipate up the tunnel
1:42
sort of here like that okay I realize it's kind of trivial it's not going to
1:46
make a huge difference in cooling but I've seen some pretty stupid RAM spreaders where the fins come out this
1:51
way and they block air from actually flowing naturally as the heat rises off
1:55
the memory module that said it's debatable how much of a difference a
1:59
heat spr makes but these do look really cool when you install them in your
2:02
system thank you for checking out my video unboxing of the gskill rip Jaws
2:07
memory