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As memory demands continue to increase, it makes sense to shortlist 8GB memory kits for an AMD or Core i3/i5 system. Unfortunately until fairly recently, the performance of a 4GB DDR3 memory stick was sadly lacking. The G.SKill Ripjaws F3-12800CL7D-8GBRH 8GB Kit goes a long way to improving this situation, especially as we were able to increase the clocks to 1920mhz at 8-9-9-24 1T timings. Exceptional results.
At default 1600mhz ‘out of the box' settings, the performance is excellent – however if you have the ability (or inclination) to increase voltage to 1.65 and spend some time fine tuning bios settings, 1900mhz is easily achievable … even at reasonably tight timings. This significantly improves the overall performance of the system and is definitely worth the time and effort.
We had a little difficulty finding this specific CL7 8GB kit in the United Kingdom at time of publication, however online store search interface Skinflint listed them across Europe, which seems to translate to a UK price of around £150-£180 inc vat. Please note before purchasing that G.Skill do sell a version of this kit in a lower specification CL9 pack.
If you are in the market for performance memory and want the added benefit of future proofing your system, then the G.Skill Ripjaws F3 8GB kit deserves some serious consideration.
Kitguru says: Quality memory at a very reasonable price point.
Only problem with gskill is their availability is poor.
This raises a good point. generally CL7 kits are much better quality than the CL9 counterparts which are cheaper. CL9 also have lower production costs.
GSKILL are small but they know the enthusiast audience demands very well. This looks to be a fantastic kit. well worth looking at in the new year for a new system
I still have a 2GB GSKILL kit that I bought years ago and I think this company are much better than OCZ or any of the others for performance memory.
very good performance. 4GB sticks used to be painfully bad. like this pricing too
G.Skill has good price/performance value there. I got their Trident kit last year. It’s oced like a dream and price is good too.
very very sexy, like it.
I need new memory, but 4GB is more than enough. still, gskill make good stuff. always liked their ram.