What's the verdict on G. Skill RAM?

[Eug]

In my opinion G.Skill is a 2nd tier brand. The 1st tier brands are generally the ones that make their own memory chips, like Crucial (Micron) and Samsung, etc.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Corsair has been my go to brand for many years now and they've yet to disappoint me. I've used crucial in the past and rma service takes about a month to complete.

 

[VirtualLarry]

He is obviously thinking of DDR3 and missed the DDR4 portion.

Brianl, as a tip before you post haughty, superior post, where you are correcting someone. Take the 10 seconds to google it.

I think he is talking about the chips themselves. Gskill heavily bin their DRAM, for higher speeds, and sell mostly overclocked DRAM. I doubt that there are any 3000 DDR4 chips coming out of the foundries right now. Most Gskill 3000-speed DDR4 is probably 2133 or 2400 chips, overvolted and binned.

 

[tweakboy]

Their RAM is good. Pull the trigger on it. G SKILL is not top notch company but good enough where you cant see the difference

 

[BonzaiDuck]

G.Skill is all I buy.

I could say "ditto," but even recently a 4x4 Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 kit came into my hands. I didn't bother overclocking it, except that you can set CR=1 and it passes a day's-worth of HCI Memtest-64 -- without changing any voltages. Well, to be honest, I DID bump up the VCCIO to 1.075V from ~1.005.

I replaced that kit with a G.SKILL Ripjaws X DDR3-1866 9-10-9-28 kit -- cheaper than the 9-9-9-24 Ripjaws Z kit I have in another machine. The former seemed like a bargain at ~$80+. Also solid RAM.

I like G.SKILL and have been using them since 2008 -- replacing some Crucial kits that burned out in less than a year as what seemed to be an epidemic of "too-optimistic-voltage-spec -- itis. "

G.SKILL tech-support has, over the years, answered every question I put to them in e-mails. Always very helpful. I'd had the "PQ" DDR2-800 kits, the Black-Pi 900's, another PQ DDR2-1000 kit, DDR3-1600 Ripjaws, Ripjaws X and Ripjaws Z.

I'd had one or two out of maybe eight DDR2-800 modules go south, and the RMA turnaround seemed warp-drive fast. Or at least the delay was much less than you'd expect. Everything else was flawless "from the git-go."

 

[Nec_V20]

Although there is some RAM I would exclude (G.SKILL not being included in that list) the only thing I look at is price.

I usually (as in my most recent case) end up with Corsair, although the last time the best deal I saw for the quality I wanted was Patriot Memory Viper 3 PC1600.

This time I got 32GB of Corsair 8GB Vengeance Pro 2400 for £160 (instead of £210 for a G.SKILL TridentX 2400).
https://www.dabs.com/products/corsa...o-2400mhz-ddr3-dimm-240pin-c11-gold-98RV.html

 

[Kenmitch]

No issues with G.Skill ram for me. It's most of time best bang for the buck....Only downside is they tend to have way too many skus to choose from. Once you pick a color their manageable.