Question 1

I was wondering does it come with the cooling memory fan, like the one in the video?

Accepted Answer

No, that is for the kit. If you full screen the video there should be an annotation in the top left hand corner and when you click it, it will link you to the kit. It has 4 sticks of ram and a fan with it.

Question 2

Does the G.SKILL TridentX Series 16GB come with memory cooling  fan, like it said in the video?

Accepted Answer

This kit has heatsinks pre-installed, but no active cooling fan.

Question 3

Is this compatible with the 1150 CPUs?

Accepted Answer

Yes it is. I currently have this running with my GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD3H LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS and I am very pleased with the performance.

Question 4

Is the PCB actually black?

I just RMAed some RAM that I purchased that said it had a black PCB in the product description, but it was actually green. So I wanted to verify with someone that owns these whether it is actually black before I purchase them. Thanks!

Accepted Answer

I brought 2 set  one in Jan 2013 and one in Jul 2013. Both set are black.

On my mother board GIGABYTE|GA-Z77X-UD5H they are 2.5 inches tall.

Question 5

IS this compatible with a ASRock H81M-HDS motherboard? I ask because CPU-ID shows the cpu socket as 1150 LGA and the overview says it supports 1155 LGA. The motherboard supports DDR3/1600 memory, has 2 slots and supports a max of 16gb, so this should be a good fit right?

Accepted Answer

Hello Kyle.
I have used that RAM module in many motherboards and it has always worked flawless.
Even motherboards that did not list it in their Qualified Vendor List (QVL) worked great.
I recommend that you check your mobo's QVL first, but even if not, as long as your mobo supports this type of RAM (i.e., DDR3-1600, etc.) there is a VERY high chance it would work.
Hope that helps, and good luck.

Question 6

Does this RAM work with the ASUS Maximus vi hero motherboard?

Accepted Answer

I have the exact motherboard and the ram works great! I haven't had any issues at all and I even overclocked it a little bit via the ASUS bios settings. You have no worries, good luck.

Question 7

Could someone tell me how much taller the heatsink on these is compared to some relatively plain DIMMs? Even Better would be a measurement in MM from the motherboard pcb to the top of the heatsink. I really appreciate the help.

Accepted Answer

Measurement from motherboard PCB to top of heatsink is a little more than than 55mm (I could not get an accurate measurement). G.skill site lists the height as 54mm. The heatsinks can be removed...reducing the height to 39mm.

Question 8

Im looking into getting this but am confused about what others have said about z77 boards (Asrock z77 extreme 3 in my case) some people say the ram dose work perfectly (even though its not listed on AR's supported memory page) others say its doesn't work at all.Can somebody clarify?

Accepted Answer

I an currently using this memory in an ASUS P8Z77-V motherboard.  I have had no issues.  System was build about a year ago.  Do not know about Asrock boards.

Question 9

Will this RAM work on my ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX motherboard?

Accepted Answer

Yes it will work with that motherboard. This is DD3 240 pin it should work with all 240-pin ddr3 motherboards. if you want to be 100% sure, then contact the motherboard manufacture.

Question 10

So I bought this, just got it today, and I am only getting a cas latency of 7 at 1100. When I bump it up manually (it didn't register stock at 1600) to 1600 it shows it as cas 10. Also it shows the max bandwidth at PC3-10700 (667 MHz). Could of sworn I paid for PC3 12800, but advertised prices don't matter I guess with G Skill. Unless I am missing something? Anyone else have this problem? Please let me know if you do, else I am returning this and buying something that I know works.

Accepted Answer

I believe mine did the same thing. I just used BIOS to set them as shown
below (exactly how to do this varies depending on the BIOS), tested them
memtest86+ for more than 8 hours with no failures and have been using
them for a couple of months since then with no problems.

Tcl       7
Trcd      8
Trp       8
Tras      24

Trc       30
Trtp      7

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