Good deal. Price inclusive of delivery + GST. Lifetime Warranty.
DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000)
Timing 16-18-18-38
CAS Latency 16
Voltage 1.35V
Details : http://www.gskill.com/en/product/F4-3000C16D-16GISB
G.Skill Aegis 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 3000 CL16 RAM - $141.90 Delivered @ Newegg
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This has recently increased in price a smidge.
Expect improving price points as the year rolls on, not to mention sales.
How are these for AMD CPU's, specifically Ryzen's?
From the limited reviews I read, generally for AMD Ryzen, DDR4-3200 is the sweet spot. The performance gain is much less after 3200.
Also, for Ryzen with 2933+ RAM make sure you choose RAM on the QVL. I made that mistake.
good enough, the price difference you can make up by upgrading other parts of the system is way more beneficial than spending all on 4k speed ram…
Anyone seen a deal on 32GB 2x16 with G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z170 Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16S-16GVK
Good price but TERRIBLE timings O_o
The best timings you're going to see for CL16 out of the box are 16-18-18-36, so you're literally bitching about 2 nanoseconds on next access. It's also not seen frequently, or priced competitively.
What's more, this is easily overclockable to 3200, or can have the timings tweaked to something like CL15, perhaps some combination of the two with more granular timing adjustments.
I recently bought a pair from them, added to my existing Corsair 16GB RAM which has XML profile overclocked to 3000MHz, but because their clocks are slightly different, I couldn’t find a XML profile to get both Corsair and GSkill to run at 3000. Have to settle on default 2400. Does anyone know of a site with guide to configure them to run at 3000?
Which mobo model?
You need to choose the manual memory configuration in the BIOS (XMP simply won't work). Quite a number of motherboards aren't good at XMP profile matching (and they simply support profile 1). I have an old PC setup which mixes Kingston with G-Skill. The Kingston Hyper-X set is much better and supports better timing at a much lower voltage, so using XMP, regardless of how I arrange the memory modules, the dumb BIOS always picks the Kingston XMP settings (and the G-Skill simply cannot run stable at the Kingston specified lower voltage). Had to go with manual setup or the BIOS pre-configured timings (which tend to be more conservative).
Since then, I try to get matching sets of RAM modules.
ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming motherboard, running Intel Core i7 6700K CPU.
@edfoo: Based on above you need to manually play with the timings. This board support this, suggest you ensure you have the latest BIOS version first then list each of your RAMs timings/voltages etc then via DRAM timings. Might take a while to get it right.
@edfoo: Since you have a K series CPU, you will get more noticeable performance gain from CPU overclocking (multiplier and clock speed). What you gain from memory overclocking is minor compared to CPU overclock.
If you want to tweak the memory settings, get CPU-Z and look at the settings of both pairs of RAM modules, start with the most conservative settings of the two at DDR4-3000. Try not to over push RAM, issue with RAM could lead to corrupted data (i.e. download of files failing checksum errors - which could lead to file corruption). It could affect file copying as well (that's why I try to do a memory test for new PC setup to be sure the RAM modules are okay).
Thanks for the suggestions. I don't have CPU-Z which I have identified the RAM.
Kinda need to look at it based on DDR4-3000, rather than the CL16 ratings for DDR4-3200. Compared to G-Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3000, which has rated timing of CL 15-16-16-35, the timing on this one is inferior. Not saying the Ripjaws V kit is great either. However, I got that kit from an OZB deal (probably from NewEggs too) for around the same price, so this one isn't that great.
Even if we look at GeIL EVO Potenza, which is the cheapest DDR4-3000 kit from MSY, that is also a CL15 kit. It is $165 though.
Both timings and clock matter, as they combine to create the effective speed of the memory. For the most part, 3200 CL16 is not going to give much more than what 3000 CL15 will produce.
These sticks should manage both of those configurations on most boards, so if your individual use case benefits from one or the other (unlikely for a home user), then you're able to get a bit more than the described rating with a few settings changes.
Does anyone know how does this compare to Vengeance LPX?
Yep I have both types and to be honest I think they are pretty much equal in what they do, speed and various latency's, they work well and reliable. Maybe check what warranty you get as some might be better than others but in general RAM will not blow up unless you get a bad board short, spike or lightning strike.
Nice info. Thanks man! I'll probably will go for this one as this is much cheaper.
It'll also die if mishandled (static) But you are correct. It's also why most manafacturers put lifetime warranty on them.
G.Skill will provide direct International RMA (even without receipt) should anything go wrong, Corsair on the other hand will insist on a receipt and that they're RMA's through the store/channel they were sold it. For this reason alone I stopped buying Corsair.
about time the price of memory is going South…
https://m.newegg.com/global/au-en/product/N82E16820232688
cheaper?