G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB 32GB (2x 16GB) DDR4 3600MHz Memory - 16-16-16-36 F4-3600C16D-32GTZN

First off, this kit is for a very specific audience. It won't make your computer faster in most cases when compared to other kits in the same series. If you don't know if 16-16-16-36 timings can help you, it's probably not worth it over their 16-18-18-38 kit which often goes for nearly half the price. You won't see any difference unless your workload makes it impossible to keep your CPU busy while it waits for memory. It probably won't help your video encoding, 3D rendering time or scientific calculation times which all depends on data available in advance. It probably won't help getting higher framerates in games or how many browser tabs you can keep open because those are dependent on moving more data (frequency), not waiting for it less (timings). Tight timings ... MoreFirst off, this kit is for a very specific audience. It won't make your computer faster in most cases when compared to other kits in the same series. If you don't know if 16-16-16-36 timings can help you, it's probably not worth it over their 16-18-18-38 kit which often goes for nearly half the price. You won't see any difference unless your workload makes it impossible to keep your CPU busy while it waits for memory. It probably won't help your video encoding, 3D rendering time or scientific calculation times which all depends on data available in advance. It probably won't help getting higher framerates in games or how many browser tabs you can keep open because those are dependent on moving more data (frequency), not waiting for it less (timings). Tight timings are beneficial for real-time data processing and edge cases where your CPU would have to stall waiting for data. Those are things like low 1% frame-times in games, live audio processing, live-streaming with CPU encoding. The kind of stuff where it's impossible to know the data 1/20th of a second in advance, basically. And even then, only expect a 5-7% improvement in those specific 1% scenarios where it matters. Of course, you can still trade those timings for a higher frequency overclocks, if you get lucky and know what you're doing, but you might as well get a 4000 mHz kit at that point. As for my personal experience with those, unfortunately, I got really unlucky with my CPU/board combo in the silicon lottery. While the 8700k I tried them on are known for their easy 5gHz overclocks (my board even come with a "one click 5gHz OC profile"), mine refuses to go over 4.9gHz without crashing, no matter the voltage, and is insanely hot at stocks settings... like... 95C+ on a good AiO hot... Even then, I managed, with very little tweaking, to get the XMP profile to work. I have 4 kits (8 DIMMs) and have tested all of them as sets of 4 DIMMs at a time on that build. They all worked perfectly fine with the same adjustments when compared to the previous memory that was in the system (4x8GB Trident Z 3200 16-18-18-38 which ran XMP out of the box). All they needed was a slight voltage bump on the memory and base CPU offset while dropping the turbo adjustment voltage to reduce the variance between low and high power states. I've run multiple burn-in tests for about 6 hours on both sets of 4 DIMMs and they all worked perfectly. In other words, while their XMP profile didn't technically worked out of the box on a very picky system, it took me less than 5 minutes to get the machine to not only POST, but also survive a 6hrs torture test... for any mix of 4 out of 8 DIMMs that I got. Amazing! I cannot wait to see how they will fare in my next AMD build.

The first gen Ryzen was very picky with memory, and Gskill delivers with this Samsung B-Die kit! Low latency, tight timings, and the transfer rate is amazing at the price. Can be tightened even further out overclocked much further at stock timings.This kit of a great pairing to today's 5000 series as well. I really like the design, too. RGB can be controlled by OpenRGB, motherboard utility, or a lightweight application from Gskill.

This is for F4-3600C16D-32GTZN - Not to be confused with the cheaper F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC These are Samsung B-Die ICs in dual rank configuration. If you are looking at this is kit for a Ryzen build, look no more. I bought this RAM after having some poor experiences with another RAM kit from Patriot (also B-die). To be fair, the kit was not in my motherboard's QVL and I was trying to run 4x8gb. I Could not get XMP running. OC'ing with DRAM CALC never gave the best stability as much as I tried. I wanted 32GB and my motherboard (MSI x570 Unify) has a Daisy Chain memory layout and it prefers 2 sticks over 4. So I returned them and got this. Paid the premium for them, but my life has been so much easier. XMP profile booted right up and after importing the XMP profile on ... MoreThis is for F4-3600C16D-32GTZN - Not to be confused with the cheaper F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC These are Samsung B-Die ICs in dual rank configuration. If you are looking at this is kit for a Ryzen build, look no more. I bought this RAM after having some poor experiences with another RAM kit from Patriot (also B-die). To be fair, the kit was not in my motherboard's QVL and I was trying to run 4x8gb. I Could not get XMP running. OC'ing with DRAM CALC never gave the best stability as much as I tried. I wanted 32GB and my motherboard (MSI x570 Unify) has a Daisy Chain memory layout and it prefers 2 sticks over 4. So I returned them and got this. Paid the premium for them, but my life has been so much easier. XMP profile booted right up and after importing the XMP profile on DRAM calc I had them running along very nicely at 3800mhz with tight CL16 timings on my 3800X (with 1900 FCLK). Performance is great. To be fair, you could also get other dual rank 32gb 3200mhz CL14 kits from Gskill that are a bit cheaper and also get similar if not the same results. But I recommend this to anyone (like I was) looking for a sure fire / high performance memory kit that is granted to hit the sweet spot for Ryzen (3600CL16) right out the gate.