G.SKILL Trident Z Royal DDR4-4000 CL17 2x8GB Review

Name: G.SKILL Trident Z Royal DDR4-4000 CL17 2x8GB
Brand: G.SKILL

Nate

on Jan 31st, 2019,

in Memory.

Manufacturer: G.SKILL

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Test System

Test System
Processor:	Intel Core i9-9900K 5.0 GHz (Max Boost Clock), 16 MB Cache
Memory:	2x 8 GB DDR4 4000 MHz G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 4000 MHz CAS17 (silver edition)
Cooling:	Alphacool Eisbaer 240
Motherboard:	ASRock Z390 Taichi Intel Z390, BIOS E7B10IMS
Graphics Card:	MSI GTX 980 GAMING 4 GB
Harddisk:	1x Crucial M4 128 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (OS) 1x Crucial BX200 256 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Data) 1x Samsung 950 PRO M.2 (NVMe)
Power Supply:	Seasonic Prime Titanium 1000 W
Case:	Lian Li T60 test bench
Software:	Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, NVIDIA GeForce 376.33 WHQL

Initial Setup

I must confess that my test system really didn't live up to the glamorous nature of this kit. The G.SKILL Trident Z Royal still looked stunning, and I had a lot of fun getting some really cool trick shots of the ASRock Z390 Taichi reflected in the heat spreader.

The light bar on the G.SKILL Trident Z Royal is the best I have seen so far, with crisp clean effects and an unrivaled clarity and brightness. Once again, my photography skills are really falling short of the mesmerizing reality this kit achieves.

Running this kit at its rated speed was as simple as enabling XMP. The G.SKILL Trident Z Royal had no stability issues at all during my testing.

Thaiphoon shows that these are Samsung ICs, which is no big surprise given the performance offered.