Review: G.Skill Ripjaws V 8GB DDR4-3600 (F4-3600C17D-8GVK)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 20 January 2016, 16:11

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Testing Methodology

Comparison Memory

  G.Skill Ripjaws V 3,600 Corsair Vengeance LPX 3,200 Corsair Vengeance LPX 2,133
Model
F4-3600C17D-8GVK
CMK16GX4M4B3200C16
CMK16GX4M4A2133C13
Capacity
8GB (2x4GB)
16GB (4x4GB)
8GB (2x4GB)
Speed
3,600MHz
3,200MHz
2,133MHz
Timings
17-18-18-38-2N
16-18-18-36-2T
15-15-15-35-2T
Voltage
1.35V
1.35V
1.20V

Test Platform

CPU Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard Asus Z170-K (0323 BIOS)
Storage Device SK hynix Canvas SC300 512GB
Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
Power Supply Corsair AX760i
Operating System Windows 10 64-bit

Benchmarks

HEXUS.PiFast Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places
CINEBENCH R15 Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores
HandBrake 0.10.2 Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit)
wPrime 2.1.0 Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads
AIDA64 v5.30.3500 Memory analysis tool supporting Skylake CPUs
3DMark DX11, Fire Strike default test
Grand Theft Auto V DX11, 1,920x1,080, very high quality (GTX 980) and normal quality (IGP)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor DX11, 1,920x1,080, ultra quality (GTX 980) and low quality (IGP)
Total War: Rome II DX11, 1,920x1,080, extreme quality (GTX 980) and medium quality (IGP)

Overclocking

We've chosen three arbitrary speeds and timings in order to evaluate the overclocking potential of the modules. Voltage was increased to 1.45V.

  3,733MHz
(17-18-18-36-2T)
3,800MHz
(17-18-18-36-2T)
4,000MHz
(18-19-19-40-2T)
G.Skill Ripjaws V @ 1.45V

We're fast approaching the commercial limit of DDR4 memory and the ability of our processor to run the integrated memory controller at lofty frequencies.