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G.Skill Ripjaws 4 F4-3000C15Q-GRR 16GB Memory Kit Review

Memory by leeghoofd @ 2015-03-02

With the release of Intel's high end X99 platform aka Haswell-E last year DDR4 became available for the big masses. Besides the massive available bandwidth these DDR4 modules can also pack a far higher density per stick. All this goodness is available at your disposal while requiring a mere 1.2-1.35Volts. Only drawback, as with each new technology at launch is the high retail price, Things have settled a bit and prices are slowly plummeting. Today we have a look at one of G.Skill enthusiast kits: the Ripjaws 4 F4-3000C15Q quad channel kit. While they have even faster kits in their lineup, ranging up to a massive 3400MHz out of the box. Today's reviewed 3000C15 kit has been heralded by many enthusiasts worldwide. Time to take a closer look.

Test Setup and Methodology

MADSHRIMPS DDR4 TEST SETUP on LGA 2011-v3:

Intel Core i7-5960X ES with 3500 Uncore speed iso 3000MHz
Cooled by EK Waterblocks L360 kit
ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard 0801 bios
16GB G.Skill F4-3000C15Q-GRR
AMD 7970HD & Catalyst 14.4 driver
Western Digital HDD 1TB Green Caviar
Corsair AX1200 PSU
Micrcool Banchetto 101
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit SP1 fully patched.

To compare the out of the box performance of these G.Skill Ripjaws 4, we included the most used speeds by the memory vendors: being 2133, 2400, 2666 and 3000MHz.

Just to give you a quick hands on, here's a small snippet from the Haswell-E launch article of how the DDR4 speeds relate to the DDR3 memory used with the previous Intel generations; of course this is comparing apples with oranges even though both the i7-4930K and i7-5960X were running with 6 six cores at 4000MHz. Nevertheless architectural improvements have their impact, though after quickly wading through the results one doesn't need to be fooled by the looser timings on the DDR4 memory kits. 2133C15 DDR4 can easily keep up with 2400C10 DDR3 memory speeds.

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