Today, we’re going to have a look at one of G.Skill’s offerings – a 16GB Ripjaws-Z kit - the one that was the fastest memory you could buy in a not so distant past, the one that has DDR3-2400 written on it. Even though as one of industry’s main players in the enthusiast market, G.Skill have already stepped up the game by introducing Trident-X lineup that stretches all the way to DDR3-2800, we reckon that some of the older stuff could still turn lots of heads. Why? Well, let us explain first by looking at some dry data:

Manufacturer	G.Skill
Series	RipjawsZ
Part Number	F3-19200CL9Q-16GBZHD
Type	DDR3
Capacity	16 GB (4 x 4GB)
Frequency	2'400 MHz
Timings	9-11-10-28
VDIMM	1.65 Volt
Registred/Unbuffered	Unbuffered
ECC	No
Cooling	Passive Heatspreader + AirFlow
Waranty	Lifetime warranty
Package Type	Boxed

Back in the days when this memory kit was originally introduced, the main playground for high daily memory speeds was Intel’s LGA2011 platform hence these were made as a quad kit. Since then, the game has shifted to Ivy Bridge but we still can’t see any maker being able to squeeze the timings under 9-11-10-28 at 2400 using 4GB modules, which must probably mean that this as good as it gets.

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