Introduction

I would like to thank ASUS for providing the CPU, motherboard, and graphics card used in this review. This review would not have been possible without their support. Also, many thanks to G.Skill for providing the memory.

G.Skill has long been one of my personal favorites when it comes to memory since their memory offers substantial performance and capacity for your dollar, and all in a multitude of colors and styles to match your thematic PC build. Whether you want the fastest or the most affordable, G.SKill will probably end up on your list of potential candidates.

Eager to investigate RAMDisk options since so many enthusiast-grade motherboards now ship with such software on their driver disk, I asked G.Skill for a 32 GB-or-greater-capacity kit many months ago. I was also looking for low-voltage options because Haswell comes with guidance to keep every voltage as low as possible in order to minimize power consumption and heat, so G.Skill sent me the TridentX F3-1600C7Q-32GTX, a 1600 MHz CAS 7 kit featuring G.Skill's TridentX heatspreader in red and black, my favorite colors.

Specifications

Packaging

Like past GSkill sticks I reviewed, the GSkill TridentX F3-1600C7Q-32GTX 32 GB kit showed up in a rather plain plastic clamshell through which its sticks are clearly visible. That heavy heatsink on top of the sticks also adds a nice high-quality feel to the package.


The package open, I removed the papers in the middle to give you a nice view of the sticks themselves. Two sticks in the front and two in the back, each fits into the plastic shell pretty tightly. There are only the four sticks, the paper liner, and a case badge, but you really do not need anything else.