GSkill TridentZ Royal 4000 MHz

[FlanK3r]

At CES2019 GSkill launched new memory kits. GSkill is from my point of view TOP brand of memory modules. Memory not only for normal users, gamers but also for extreme overlcockers. There is also great support and compatibility list of GSkill memory kits. OF course, price is another point. For high models premium. But the prerformance, design, compatibility and long time experience seems GSkill is something as Formula 1

 

GSkill TridentZ Royal are new kits follow up latest series TridentZ RGB. Design of new Royals is more atractive on higher level. The lighting looks like "diamonds" on memory heatspreaders. And in real life looks great- You can check promo video bellow.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBJFn2oT5FU[/youtube]

 

GSkill Royals exists in two versions - gold and silver. In my case I tested silver version.

 

The kit is inside black box

 

Inside the box make us happy the antistatic cloth (for cleaning not only memory, but also eg for LCDs) and GSkill sticker. 

 

After we can see silver gems. Be carefullm on heatspreaders are  blank foil.

 

 

Kits has massive heatspreaders and under it is 10-layers PCB. 

 

Passives are 44mm high. And on top are "diamonds" leds

 

About this kit

Specification on XMP default are awesome. Most of editors can not overlcock it - [highlight=yellow] Timings on XMP is nice 17-17-17 on  4000 MHz frequency![/highlight] Memory kits are RGB friendly and synchronized example with ASUS AURA software or you can use GSkill software. Guaranteed support is for chipset Intel Z370 and Intel Z390. 

 

 

Inside (on PCB) are Samsung chips, B-die chips. B-die are very popular by extreme overlcockers because these chips likes high voltages and tight timings. TridentZ Royal have new PCB layout, a little different than TridentZ 2017 model. TNew one layout named A2. A2 seems  good for high frequency with solid timings. 

 

 

Test system PC

I used highend motherboard Maximus XI Apex, what I am testing slowly also (in next weeks)

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-8086K, my favourite one, good sample 5 GHz 1.15V for all overlcockers benchamrks. But for tests CPU is on stock.

cooling system: ROG Ryujin 360 AIO

RAM: 2x 8GB GSkill TridentZ Royal

PSU: Corsair AX1200

GPU ROG Strix GTX1050 2GB

OS: Windows 7 64-bit (some test on default memory size, some test with 4096MB max size in system)

 

I tested it only in few benchmarks. But I did one mistake and I noticed too late (in first table)

 

In the night memory looks awesome!

 

RAM and XMP profile

 

Results are in the enxt chapter

 

Overclocking with default CAS

First I tested with 17-17-17 timings. I was really interested what the memory can to do. Eg on TPWUP memory can do "nothing" on quick tweaking ( https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/G.SKILL/F4-4000C17D-16GTRS/8.html )

a nebo jen o nějakých 50 MHz.

 

Because I mentioned memory are based on b-die, dot worry about DRAM voltage. I set 1.65V as max limit. But be sure, you will set IO and SA also on manual. Sometimes on "auto" settings motherboard can set IO and SA too high and in danger zone! I used IO and SA 1.2V to 1.22V

 

 

The final result was solid 4300 MHz with 17-17-17. On higher memory clocks I got only some test, but it was not stable. For fun only I checked Superpi at 4500 MHz.

 

 

There are results. But you can see, there is my mistake with Windows settings. The big difference is in AIDA64 due to my mistake caching...

 

 

Overlcocking at 4000 MHz and with lower timings

Also here I preserved DRAM voltage up to 1.65V. Memory are scaling here very good. The best results to see are in AIDA64 and Geekbench (memory single score).

 

-final result with 4000 MHz 1.65V, IO and SA  1.22V for both

 

 

Frequency up

I was interested what can to do with higher voltage. [highlight=yellow]Do not try it home, if you not to understand overclocking theory![/highlight]

 

Superpi  4600 MHz

 

Maximum freequency 4700 MHz!

 

Propably I could got a little higher with higher SA and IO (about 1.35V)

 

 

Conslusion

Memory TridentZ Ryoal are good tweaked on stock for high performance and operating at 1.35V. I do not see much 17-17-17 kits in market. It is clear, this memory must to be one of the best in performance results from all. Usually you can see others kits 4000 MHz with timings example 18-20-20, or in better case 19-19-19. 

And if you are fan of RGBs, these kits are Miss of RAM modules :-)- GSkill have own RGB software or you can use software of motherboards to synchronize all RGBs devices. 

Overclocking is also very solid. But you need some skill to tweak it. But if you are afraid of tweaking, you can still to buy these kits because performance on stock is really high.

Only one negative could be price. Is a little higher, but every TOP product is ussually higher price ranking.

 

 

 

There are also TridentZ Royal with lower frequency and you can buy it example here: https://www.alza.cz/g-skill-16gb-kit-ddr4-3200mhz-cl16-trident-z-royal-rgb-silver-d5524821.htm

https://www.newegg.com/global/sa-en/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232787&Description=gskill trident z royal&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=gskill_trident_z_royal-_-20-232-787-_-Product

[TH3R34P3R]

Im very lost, what is the point of this post? 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, TH3R34P3R said:

Im very lost, what is the point of this post? 

It's a review

 

I also disagree with the conclusion, 5 stars is too much. The same OC performance can be had of other g.skill kits, like the old trident Z sets, and the price premium is solely for the gorgeous heat sink.

[porina]

Bling bling!

 

A review could have been better posted to user reviews section.

[TH3R34P3R]

Just now, fasauceome said:

It's a review

ahhhh ok. i was totally lost. Now it makes sense. but wouldn't it go under member reviews? (i think we have that don't we?)

[FlanK3r]

Can you move it to right section? 

 

Hard to say. TridentZ (3600 MHz old model) what I have can not push so high. For tight timings seems better for old one, but for high clocks is winner Royals. And design is also awesome. I think, only the price is issue for most of users.

[BobVonBob]

16 minutes ago, FlanK3r said:

 

  

Did you actually link together memory that expensive by the PCB slots? I get that it probably won't do any damage, but that's real spooky.

 

[TheRandomness]

- Thread moved to Member Reviews.

[FlanK3r]

@BobVonBoB dont worry, for photo its fine  Its "old" photo trick for memory kit reviews (maybe since 2010)