14 DAY TRIAL // With the upcoming Skylake-S set to be unveiled in a few days, major memory manufacturers are upgrading their DRAM memory offers to cope with the new Z170 chipset. G.SKILL is leading the pack in this regard.
Being a successor to the high-end Trident memory series and debuting for the first time on the new DDR4 standard, the new memory packs are designed and tested for the next Skylake-S CPU generation, built to cope with its new Z170 chipset and promising top-notch performance for the next-generation chipsets.
However, the real improvement of the new Trident Z and Ripjaws V DRAMs is their breakthrough of the 4000MHz speed barrier. Built by Samsung, the IC memory chips come as validated on the brand new ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard.
Trident Z Extreme DDR4 memory chips come as G.SKILL's flagship products. They are equipped with cooling fins and extreme XMP 2.0 for simple overclocking, which will boost your memory speed from the default DDR4-2800MHz to the incredible 4000MHz.
The timing of the new memory module starts at 17-18-18-30 at 3600MHz and goes up to 19-25-25-45 at the extreme speed of 4000 MHz. G.SKILL claims this performance boost comes not from special tech advances but rather years of fine tweaking the chips through extensive "secret" overclocking techniques.
It's over 4000!
The Ripjaws V memory DRAMs that are sold as the second tier of high-end performance memory chips come with the same base voltage of 1.2V to 1.35, with overclocking possibility going only as far as 3733MHz, only a tad slower than the Trident Z. Both Trident Z and Ripjaws V come in packages of 4GB to 16GB per memory module, and they can reach 64GB in packages of four modules per slot.
G.SKILL always liked to impress, and although last time it offered memory modules of 32GB with 2800MHz in 128GB packages, thus being the first commercial high-performance memory modules manufacturer that broke the 100GB memory size threshold, now it wants to bring supreme speed on its top-end Trident Z modules, beating Corsair and Kingston 3000MHz performance DDR4 DRAMs.
G.SKILL hasn't mentioned any pricing yet for its modules specialized for Z170 and Skylake-S, but is very likely that it'll sell each package at over $2,000 (€1,819) at launch.
