G.Skill Trident Z Royal DIMM DDR4

...the star of the show is the new crystal-like light bar that's unique in the industry.

The G.SKILL Trident Z Royal is a work of art, plain and simple. I am aware that many people don't like the RGB trend that has washed over the market in the last few years, and this kit is not for them. I personally have a soft spot for RGB and love this kit. I do think that potential buyers will have a hard time finding other components that live up to the flash of the G.SKILL Trident Z Royal, but perhaps a manufacturer can partner with G.SKILL to produce a full line of "Royal" components. I'd be on board for that.

G.Skill recently released a few new special kits of DDR4 that feature super-fast XMP profiles and including one that is dual rank. Within the enthusiast PC community, there's been a whole lot of buzz about dual-rank memory modules and how they offer superior performance for some benchmarks and games. Simply put, this means there are ICs on both sides of the memory PCB for better interleaving and thus better performance. We reached out to G.Skill and they sent us their new dual-rank flagship product, the unbelievably fast 2 x 16 GB 4000 CL16-19-19 Trident Z Royal.

The G.SKILL Trident Z Royal is a work of art, plain and simple. The faceted light bar on the Royal kits remains my top pick for best RGB diffusion implementation, relying on the geometry of the surface rather than opacity to prevent "hot spots." The gold finish is beautiful and uniform, and the fit and finish is excellent in general. The downside of the stunning Royal aesthetic is that it is not as easy to fit into most builds as other popular designs.

Today, we are looking at G.Skill TridentZ Royal 4000 MHz CL17 memory in a 32 GB set consisting of four 8 GB modules. At the end of 2018, we had an opportunity to check a lower-clocked kit from that series (3200 MHz), but the capacity was 2 x 8 GB back then.