I literally think the V designation is for the "value" line of memory that G.Skill offers and they deliver on that promise. Over the last few years more and more of the memory slots in my house are finding themselves with G.Skill Ripjaws V in them as I rotate out smaller capacity sticks. The fact that this product in particular is CL16 -- an important factor for performance -- compared to most of the other value oriented products on offer is a huge bonus, too.
There may be cheaper ways to stick a reasonable 32G of DDR4 into a machine but none of the products at a cheaper price point offer the same tier of performance. Like most people I shop components around "bang for the buck" and this landed squarely in that sweet spot.
The XMP profile worked perfectly on the first try with no tuning at all. Plop the sticks in, set XMP mode, and you're good to go on the first boot. Rock solid on MEMTEST86+.
This particular purchase was stuck into a machine that I pretty much only play games on and for gaming this is an excellent choice. At CL16 and an upper-mid tier throughput I'm nowhere near bottlenecked by memory performance -- faster RAM wouldn't make anything actually go faster.
Pros: Quality, price point, performance
Cons: Ridiculously huge heat spreader would make V series memory very unsuitable for low profile installations. Avoid if you need to tuck memory under your CPU cooler, a large PCIe card, or in a low profile case.
| RAM | 32 GB DDR4 |
|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 3600 MHz |
