G.Skill Eco Series DDR3 Dual Channel RAM Memory Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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388 words · ~1 min read
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so today I'm going to be unboxing kind of a cool product from g-skill this is
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their ecoseries RAM and I realized yeah it's more unboxing RAM and there's not a
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whole lot to talk about about RAM but what I want you to note about this
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packaging is that they've gone and they've colored it green now green is a
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common theme out there right now for computer parts people are bringing down
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people are demanding Parts with lower power consumption while still demanding
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higher performance in general so the Eco kit that we're looking at today what
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makes this kit green is the fact that it actually uses very very low voltages to
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achieve its operating speed so this particular kit that I'm looking at right
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here is actually a DDR3 1600 MHz kit so
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it's a reasonable speed cast latency of seven that's fairly good as well but
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what's really exceptional about it is it runs at 1.35 volts even a few months ago
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a stick like this would have definitely been running at 1.6
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because the binning just wasn't that good yet for DDR3 modules now you can
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have a look at the heat spreader here it's a fairly bog standard heat spreader
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you got your G skill logo here you got kind of a cool uh you know blady wavy
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sort of design the top has little ventilation holes you can see our oh
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yeah know it's applied properly yeah yeah it just hooks in at either end and
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then there's little holes so it's a dual Channel kit that means that it is
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optimized for H sorry I'm still in like
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my gym strip here uh so that means it is
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optimized for the core i5 core i7 LGA
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1156 platform and the reason that gkill
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has been working so hard to drive down voltage first with an update to the rip
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Jaws series and then with this new Eco series is that the core i5 and core i7
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CPUs with their integrated memory controller will actually last much
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longer the lower the memory voltage you use so thank you for checking out my
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unboxing and product overview of the gskill ecoseries RAM