G.Skill

G.Skill had an impressive booth this year with several live systems running at incredible ram speeds. Most other manufacturers restricted themselves by showing prototypes or dummy products, or at best the real deal sitting behind glass in a cage. G.Skill was a welcome change, as they did deliver the speeds they are promising. Most test systems were running DFI's UT X58 board, known for its great memory clocking. Still, I was most impressed with what their memory could deliver.

Let's start off at the midrange DDR3 side, the PC12800 parts.



The Pi-range is a very well styled heatspreader design, which comes in black and silver...



Just like Corsair (with their GT's) and OCZ (with the Blades), G.Skill now offers the "Perfect Storm" series, a new triple channel kit based around the low-latency Elpida chips. They come in two flavors : a 1866Mhz DDR (PC15000) kit :



And a top range 2Ghz DDR (PC16000) kit, which was on display, and up and running...



Most impressive memory setup of all of Cebit was this little gem in my opinion :



12Gb (6x2Gb) of Ram running at cas 7-7-7 at 900Mhz. Awesome



Another new product range is the "Trident" series, which isn't selected for low latency, but instead for the highest memory speeds :



This kit features impressive speeds of 2133Mhz DDR (PC17000+) at a latency of cas 9-9-9, and still only 1.65V.



Another interesting new product are the new fan ensembles G.Skill is testing. This product has not been released yet : G.Skill is still considering whether to use the single fan bracket...



... or the double fan solution :



Finally, there were some obligatory SSD drives on show : G.Skill was the only manufacturer we visited that still showed an SLC-based SSD drive. Although the technology is superior, the spec sheet is not that impressive. Still, these are far less prone to the so called "stuttering problem" most manufacturers struggle with.



Of course, a higher capacity MLC drive was also shown, with decent specifications:



Let's conclude with some other manufacturers >