Closer Look

Despite the on-paper awesomeness, the packaging is very simple – it's just a regular plastic box. Actually, it's not as bad as it sounds since the money is not being wasted on something that's very likely to be got rid of anyway.



The look of the modules is achieved with a mix of red and black similar to what we saw on, cough, Dominator GT three and a half years ago. Also similar to Corsair's design, the pointy red top on the Trident-X can be unscrewed and slid off to make way for a watercooler or an LN2 pot.





SPD of these modules tell us the manufacturer and the model. It also features six JEDEC profiles which are extended with a pair of XMP that are commonly being misread by CPU-Z. Both the XMP actually stands for DDR3-2400 10-12-12-31-2T operation via 1.65Vmem and 1.25Vimc, so if you are on an Intel platform, you won't need to apply any brain activity to achieve those figures.



Though taking heatspreaders off G.Skill memory has never been a challenge in the past, we still took every possible precaution prior to removal.




Unfortunately, all the tools and the experience didn't save us from a nasty outcome – one of memory ICs came right off thus rendering one module dead. Despite G.Skill's relabeling efforts in order to keep any information away from competitors, a closer look at the fourth IC reveals uncovered letters "SE" in the top left corner – markings distinctive for Samsung ICs. Having a deeper look into the IC database, we can give a more educated identification of K4B4G0846B, also known as 4Gb revision B.
By being able to tell the chip base, we managed to redeem ourselves for a damaged module and that's not the end of good news. Kind people from G.Skill have forgiven us for our manslaughter by providing a backup kit to proceed with the overclock testing.

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