G.Skill TridentX F3-2666C11D-8GTXD DDR3-2666 Preview

[OC Nub]

I probably just had bad luck with my kit. A few others seem to as well.

Wasnt trying to take anything away from your thread, nice review! Was just a little disappointing they didnt clock better than some of the less expensive memory I have.

[Reefa_Madness]

Anyway, the kit isn't here to keep any longer. IMOG was in need of some good RAM for Ivy benching. Since he has a 180L dewar at his house and freezes his hardware more than I have time to, the kit would do him much more good than it would do me; so I sent them to him to use.

Dang it...I was still holding on to the hope that these sticks of yours would end up in the Classifieds and I'd at least have a shot at them.

[hokiealumnus]

I probably just had bad luck with my kit. A few others seem to as well.

Wasnt trying to take anything away from your thread, nice review! Was just a little disappointing they didnt clock better than some of the less expensive memory I have.

You didn't take anything away at all. Sharing experience isn't ever taking anything away. Sorry your kit didn't clock as well!

Dang it...I was still holding on to the hope that these sticks of yours would end up in the Classifieds and I'd at least have a shot at them.

Well, if you can convince him to let them go, more power to you.

I still have a 2400 Pi set that I'm never letting go (until DDR4 is all we use), so don't weep for me Argentina, I'm all set for strong benching RAM.

[Janus67]

I'm just glad I live within 2.5 hours of IMOG

[Reefa_Madness]

Well, if you can convince him to let them go, more power to you.

hokie,
I was talking about having a shot at them if you had put them up for sale, not IMOG.

BTW, is your 2400 kit PSC based?

[AVulgarPicture]

All Pi kits are im pretty sure. that 2400 kit is amazing.
after the disappointing clocking 2400 8gb tridents, i was hoping that these 2666 kits would be good for 2800+ (i know my IMC is) but now im not so sure.

[hokiealumnus]

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hokie,
I was talking about having a shot at them if you had put them up for sale, not IMOG.

BTW, is your 2400 kit PSC based?

Sorry, I missed this. AFAIK, yes they are PSC chips.

[XBrytanX]

Here's an ass scratcher for you guys. WTF are these?

I have 1219AB40....on 8Gb F3-2400C10D-8GZH and was wondering what are they

[AVulgarPicture]

samsung chips, are they single or double sided?

[juanP]

will this memory kit work with the rampage iv extreme board?

[hokiealumnus]

Work? Yes. Work at DDR3-2666? probably not. There are likely very few SNB-E CPUs with an IMC capable of running that kind of speed.

[theix]

I have 1219AB40....on 8Gb F3-2400C10D-8GZH and was wondering what are they

Samsung for sure.

[XBrytanX]

H9C ......it's hynix

looks like it

[AVulgarPicture]

super noob question i know, when you guys take off the heatspreaders, how are you putting them back on? thermal glue?

or are the sticks dead and you dont care?

[sin0822]

you can reheat and if you are lucky they will stick. if not then usually just leave them off. That is what i do.

those ripjaw-z are single sided?

[owikh84]

you can reheat and if you are lucky they will stick. if not then usually just leave them off. That is what i do.

those ripjaw-z are single sided?

I got 3 sets of RiZ 2400C9 4X4GB and all are Hynix double sided.
The heatspreader will eventually opened by itself over time of push pull.

[AVulgarPicture]

i wanted to open a set of hyperx here to check if they were bbse.
didnt even need to open them with my heatgun, they just snapped apart.
i guess here in melbourne, its probably cold enough that the glue got brittle too haha

/offtopic

[XBrytanX]

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those ripjaw-z are single sided?

yes they are

[Dumo]

Test air @2700 with 1.65V. So far so good.



Cpu cold, ram on air @ 2900

[Dumo]

2800 1.65V

[hokiealumnus]

Curses I can't see those images right now. Looks pretty great so far. What voltage did you use for 2900? How are timings?

[Dumo]

It was few first runs with 1.8V 2T air boot up @ 2933. After playing with M5F settings I can easily run 2800 1.65V with 11-13 1T which almost as smooth as 2800 C11 kit

[hokiealumnus]

Nice!

[andressergio]

Whew, now I can post some of this stuff! A couple results were featured in our Ivy Bridge review today, but these are a couple quick RAM results. I've had very little time with the kit on a Z77 motherboard (about 30 minutes on a just-installed Maximus V GENE), but this kit is looking killer.

How about rated timings, rated vDIMM (1.65V)....and DDR3-2800 stable by just changing the divider. Sound good? Sounded good to me too.



Not enough you say? Let's have a very minor bump in vDIMM to 1.67V. It's not stable by any stretch, but I only had a few minutes to play and came up with DDR3-2900 with rated timings.



It looks like the only thing holding them back is time! I've got to do the actual review work in the mean time but will post any additional results as they come in the next week or two.

nice mate but u gamed or live it 24/7 as SPI32 aint sign of stability or maybe memtest ?

i have 2 sets of other mem and can also shoot even HYPERPI 32 at 2800 but not stable to game

would be nice if someone can post a 200% memtest 4 instances windows of 1500 each

like this



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[hokiealumnus]

I did use it gaming for a little while at that speed without issue and ran all of the benchmarks from our review. I do agree a SP32M run isn't enough to call it stable for sure, but it's a good starting point. If it finishes SP32M, it's either stable or just a voltage bump / small timing tweak away from being perfectly stable.

Unfortunately these sticks are with a friend right now. I'll try to remember to run that for you whenever they get back. Not sure when that will be though.