G.SKILL Trident Z Royal DDR4-4000 MHz CL17 2x16 GB

[Black Haru]

With looks fit for a king and performance to match, the Trident Z Royal from G.SKILL is back. With a 2x 16 GB specification at 4000 MHz, this kit is not only fast, but also looks glamorous on your shelf or when installed.

Show full review

 

[dgianstefani]

Nice alternative to their 2x8 4000/15 kit if you need more capacity.

 

[Makaveli]

Nice kit a tad expensive.

I also think its time you guys upgrade the DRAM Calculator for Ryzen you are using on your test bench from 1.62 to the current 1.73 unless there is a specific reason you are sticking to the older version.

Also what are the highest clocks you can hit on intel with a 1T command rate?

 

[Night]

Am I missing something? AIDA Write speeds hit over 30 GB/s on only one kit from the benchmark.
AIDA64 speeds for 2x8GB F4-3200C14D-16GTZRX:

 

[Warsaw]

Am I in the minority here in that I think the Royal series looks god awful. I'd much rather have a Trident Z series with similar specs

 

[mechtech]

And an spd of 2133, just sad. They should include spd for 3200 at 1.2V at least so it can and will run there at the very least without XMP or OCing, instead of 2133. Said it before and I will say it until the cows come home. Put a big 2133 sticker on it with an XMP 4000 sticker beside it.

Other than that nice bling factor for those with money to burn.

 

[CyberG]

Am I missing something? AIDA Write speeds hit over 30 GB/s on only one kit from the benchmark.
AIDA64 speeds for 2x8GB F4-3200C14D-16GTZRX:
View attachment 185009

In Zen2 and probably in Zen3 with 8 or less core you have the half of the speed and they are using an 3600x to test memorys in AMD.

What can not understand why read copy and latency are so low i get whey more speed with a shetty skhynix afr

 

[Beverain]

here's what i get with a Samsung S-Die memory kit running at 3533C16 with a 3950X .

It seems even my crappy kit (XMP doesn't work with this kit) is better than most kits they've tested here
Their testing methodology doesn't really make sense imo, why use a 3600x? when it gets half the write speed, and bottlenecking the memory subsystem?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Am I missing something? AIDA Write speeds hit over 30 GB/s on only one kit from the benchmark.
AIDA64 speeds for 2x8GB F4-3200C14D-16GTZRX:
View attachment 185009

It's the single CCD issue with the 3000-series CPUs.

 

[Raven Rampkin]

And an spd of 2133, just sad. They should include spd for 3200 at 1.2V at least so it can and will run there at the very least without XMP or OCing, instead of 2133. Said it before and I will say it until the cows come home. Put a big 2133 sticker on it with an XMP 4000 sticker beside it.

Other than that nice bling factor for those with money to burn.

It's a BCPB bin, i.e. 2133. You can't assume every sample will do 3200 at 1.2V whatever the timings. Upside, it scales w/ voltage like nothing else

 

[Deleted member 193596]

do they run as hot as their normal trident Z Kits?

My 3600Mhz 16GB Dimms are running at almost 50°C while gaming (with active cooling on an open testbench with 19°C Ambient)

 

[Makaveli]

It's the single CCD issue with the 3000-series CPUs.

I wouldn't call it an issue since its done by design

 

[TheLostSwede]

I wouldn't call it an issue since its done by design

Well, side effect then?

 

[Tomgang]

All ready have 2 kits of G.skill Royal Z in gold and silver just waiting for Zen 3 CPU is actually in stock. 3600 MHz CL14 32 GB (2 x 16 and 4 x 8). But yeah The Royal Z is properly not for every one. Bofh for looks and price. Personally i like some bling bling in my PCm But not to much either.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Never thought of this stuff as a nic-nak lol
But they are the Liberace line he loved frosting

 

[claster17]

My 3600Mhz 16GB Dimms are running at almost 50°C while gaming (with active cooling on an open testbench with 19°C Ambient)

That seems rather hot. Are you running a high voltage?
When gaming my 2x16GB Neo B-die run at 45-50°C with 22-25°C internal case temperature and almost no airflow. If I point a 400RPM fan at it, temps drop to around 35°C.

Spoiler: Running these settings on mine

3733 CL14 would run at 1.45V but needs active cooling which is why I don't use it 24/7.

 

[dgianstefani]

This is at 1.63v, temps top out at 38c under usual load, and 46c under 30min OCCT memory stress. 50c is way too high for B Die to be stable at good speeds/timings.

 

[Deleted member 193596]

That seems rather hot. Are you running a high voltage?
When gaming my 2x16GB Neo B-die run at 45-50°C with 22-25°C internal case temperature and almost no airflow. If I point a 400RPM fan at it, temps drop to around 35°C.

Spoiler: Running these settings on mine

View attachment 185601

3733 CL14 would run at 1.45V but needs active cooling which is why I don't use it 24/7.

completely stock with XMP (1.35V)
cooled by an Corsair ML 120 Pro directly above it in the case. and at 19°C Ambient.
I have this issue since last summer where i had like 65°C while playing games at 30°C ambient. and it even sticked a 120mm fan ontop of the ram sticks in an open NZXT H710.
i don't know if the heatspreader is not properly attached and one module gets that hot but i can't do anything to fix it.

 

[dgianstefani]

B die ram is most stable at ideal low 20c range, 20-30 is ideal if you can get it, 30-40 is acceptable but you won't be able to push it as hard, over 40 is to be avoided especially if you are pushing the sticks past their XMP. I start to throw errors around 45c.

I'm going to see if I can replace the thermal pads under my neos heatspreaders with 13w/mk, hopefully lower temps, every c matters, literally.

I'm lucky in my case because its a sandwich layout so no gpu heat onto ram, and cpu is liquid cooled with radiator exhausting through the top of the case and intakes at the bottom. I imagine it's possible for you to figure out how to get cooler air to the ram dimms by sorting out those two heat sources.

If you are getting temps of 65c on your ram that's unacceptable and you should be seriously worried about os corruption with the amount of errors ram will throw at those temps..

 

[jesdals]

B die ram is most stable at ideal low 20c range, 20-30 is ideal

20-30c seems very low considering that most pc will have ambient in that range - so in a closed case its very low or you have som active cooling. Unfortunately I dont have censors on my Patriot Viper kits but heres my setting with 4x8gb dimms

 

[BorisDG]

This review is too much copy-pasta from other. It says:

The G.SKILL Trident Z Royal sticks are single-sided and use Samsung B-die ICs on a PCB with 10 layers for added stability.

While It's very clear to see from the photos and the specs itself (16GB stick) that is dual sided / rank.

 

[Caring1]

This review is too much copy-pasta from other. It says:



While It's very clear to see from the photos and the specs itself (16GB stick) that is dual sided / rank.

Single rank/ Dual sided.