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G.Skill Ripjaws Z 2133CL9Q-16GBZH Memory Kit Review

Memory by leeghoofd @ 2012-02-02

G.Skill is one of the more prominent market leaders in the RAM department. Offering a zillion of different ram combinations in all sorts of quantities, timings, speeds and even you can pick between different heatspreader colors. With the launch of the SandyBridge-E platform, we received one of the higher end 16Gb quad channel kits, running at 2133Mhz. Timings are the following : CL9-11-10-28. Maybe you are not impressed, but remember this is a quad channel comprising of 4Gb dimms. And best of all the price isn't lethal at all. The X79 ram line is baptized RipjawsZ. The X lineup for the older Sandy Bridges has been renown for being potent overclockers. But most reviewed kits were only 2GB DIMM versions. So being a lot easier to push. Let's have a look if we can get some more juice out of these dimms.

Some More Fun

We tried to push with the stock rated timings of 9-11-10-27, but at 1T command rate. We walled at 2252Mhz, Memtest stable. We reqired just 1.67Vdimm, but pumping more volts didn't help at. We pushed up to 1.75Vdimm, no go.

Loosening Command Rate to 2T and some timing tweaking we walled, again, at 2282Mhz. To go higher slack timings is the way to go. 2400Mhz CL10-12-10-30 1T is bench possible. But to be 24/7 stable with 2400Mhz at 1.67Vdimm, TRP adjustment is a must, so settle then with 10-12-11-30. If you don't want to go over 1.65Vdimm, opt for 11-12-11-30 instead.

With 1.69Vdimm Memtest stable at 2460Mhz Cl10-12-11-30...

We did some testing on the X58 platform and got a rock stable 2400Mhz CL10-12-11-30 2T stable. Impressive for a 4gb dimm.

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