FEATURED G.Skill Ripjaws4 16GB ( 4x4GB ) DDR4-3200 CL16 1.35V - F4-3200C16Q-16GRKD

Ripjaws V and Trident Z should be wider available soon while I will show one one Ripjaws 4 memory kit. This time it's F4-3200C16Q-16GRKD so 16GB DDR4-3200 CL16-16-16-36 1.35V designed for X99 motherboards.

This memory as most available G.Skill kits right now, is based on Samsung IC. Earlier kits were also available on Hynix and I think it was better idea. Soon you will find out why.










Memory has one XMP profile which for some reason didn't work on ASRock X99M Killer 3.1 ( 2 BIOS versions including latest beta ) and Maximus VIII Ranger ( latest BIOS 04 ). In both cases motherboards had problems to start when XMP was enabled. Maybe it's something with the boards or XMP profile, hard to say.
Since XMP isn't working then I won't show screenshot with XMP results as I used to do.

Below is result on ASRock X99M Killer 3.1 using manual settings.

Overclocking Results

2666 13-14-14-32 1N 1.35V




2800 13-14-14-32 1N 1.40V




3000 14-15-15-35 1N 1.40V




3200 16-16-16-36 1N 1.40V - Skylake



For some reason I had problems to stabilize this memory at 3200 regardless of used voltage, timings or number of memory sticks. Finally I made it work on Z170 motherboard at 3200 but at 1.4V.

Since there were problems to set 3200 then anything higher was of course not possible.

If you are interested in higher clocked memory for Skylake, then I recommend Ripjaws V series which is working much better and are no problems with XMP profiles on Z170 motherboards - test of 2x8 GB Ripjaws V 3200 memory kit ( at similar timings ) you can find here.

Couple of photos were finally added to the first post ( 1 month delay is probably my record ).

Strange how Samsung-based kits that were binned for X99 often need more volts on Skylake, I wonder if there are some XMP sub-timings that are getting set too tight?

There are slightly different sub timings. However this kit had problems to run at XMP even on X99 board and had problems to OC manually on X99 and Z170. I'm not sure if it was matter of this kit or something else as I have no problems with any other G.Skill kits.
I was checking Ripjaws V and TridentZ at the same 3200 16-16-16 main timings and Samsung IC and all of them ( 2x4 and 2x8GB kits ) could run at XMP on X99 and Z170 without issues and all are overclocking good.