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General |
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| Overall it can be said, that the G.SKILL Ripjaws4 16 Gigabyte memory kit does what
G.SKILL claims they do and
therefore they clear specs without any issues whatsoever. When
overclocking these Ripjaws4 modules, we run HyperPi Multithread and it
passed DDR4-3170 at 1.5 volt and
with the stock latency set, which is actually a very good result. |
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- Compatibility with big coolers
- Overclocking |
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| Scaling |
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| The only latency set with which we've noticed
linear scaling was CL14. If we look at CL12, CL13, CL15 as well as CL16
we always see a degression when setting 1.5 volt. This means, that at
1.5 Volt you can drive these sticks close to their maximum frequency. |
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- Scaling CL14 |
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| Overclocking Air and Extreme |
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| Using the Rampage V Extreme and our specific
memory testing CPU, which has a good IMC, reaching 3.3GHz on the memory
was actually easy. Using aircooling the journey stops at 3320
MHz. In this case we have to feed these sticks with 1.75 volt and it's
running with the CAS latency 16 instead of CL15. At a later stage we
chilled the modules using liquid nitrogen as a cooland. Optimizing RTL
and IOL settings we managed to score a new MaxxMEM memory read world
records of 32'848 MByte/sec. |
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- 3.3+ GHz
- 2.9+ GHz @ CL10 |
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Recommendation / Price |
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| Checking Geizhals.at for prices we find the G.SKILL
Ripjaws4-3000C15 16 Gigabyte kit listed for 330 Euro. G.SKILL is
therefore continuing with their pricing scheme and these Ripjaws4
modules are definitely no bargain. We would honestly like to find these
modules for a bit less then 300 Euro, but since DDR4 is new in the
market there is still hope that prices might drop over time. |
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| The G.SKILL Ripjaws4-3000C15
receives excellent 4.5 out of 5 stars. |
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