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G.SKILL TRIDENTX 8GB 2400C10 Dual Channel RAM Kit Review

Memory by leeghoofd @ 2013-02-04

The G.Skill brand has become one of the more popular ones in the enthusiast community. This Taiwanese RAM company has won the hearts of many overclockers, especially due their binning methods and affordable price tag. Therefore G.Skill manages time after time to launch RAM kits in multiple speed/timing versions, different quantities and best of all they usually sport some overclocking headroom. G.Skill introduced simultaneously a new series of RAM, baptized TridentX, together with Intel's launch of the Ivy Bridge CPU. The RAM vendors had to readjust their binning methods, mainly due to the high ram speed support of Intel's 3rd generation CPU. Enthusiast RAM isn't solely based anymore on just tight timings, high RAM speeds is one of the new requirements. The TridentX kit reviewed today is one of the medium specced kits, comprised of two 4GB dimms running at a whopping 2400MHz RAM speed, however affordably priced at sub 75 euros.

Air Overclocking Fun

As an overclocker it's always fun to find the highest possible bench stable frequency, sometimes going outside the safe voltage range of maximum 1.7Vdimm.

It was already a big surprise we could stabilise this affordable 2400C10 kit at 2600C10-12-12-31 speeds at just 1.72Vdimm. Amazing really as the latter mentioned high end kit, costs easily twice as much as our review kit. For those that don't want to push as much voltage and want to limit themselves, 2600C11-12-12 was stable at 1.685Vdimm. However since we had 2600MHz C10-12-12-311T rock stable during our bench suite it was time to aim higher. Next up 2666MHz.

With 1.75Vdimm we achieved, albeit after some tertiary sub timing tweaking, 2666MHz C11-12-12-30 1T

We tried to stabilise 2666MHz CAS Latency 10 and got it done by pumping voltages at 1.785Vdimm. However we had to loosen tRCD and tRP to 13, But impressive nevertheless for some 75 euro Dimms.

This is where our adventure came to a halt, booting 2800MHz RAM divider was possible, but no matter the timings or voltages set, however finding any stability was far fetched. Even loose C12-14-14-35 2T timings got us anywhere stable. Clearly indicating our particular kit was not up for high speed screaming action. How about tighter timings then ? Starting off with the rated 2400MHz speeds we kept the timings at C9-11-11-21 1T and slowly but steadily upped the BClock till we reached a nice 2490MHz at the tight C9-11-11-21 1T timings. Voltage was set at 1.82Vdimm for this run and several attempts were made to breach 2500MHz.

The more I started to play with this kit, the more impressed I got by it. Totally unexpected tweaking potential !

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