Obviously the TridentZ DDR4-3400 16GB kit is not going to be right for all consumers and all scenarios. First and foremost, is 16GB is a tad too small if consumers are interested in a RAM drive and making game load times a thing of the past. Next is this kit really is meant for Z170 systems as two sticks will not cut it on a 2011-v3 / X99 based rig. Equally important is that 16GB is a touch small for PC gaming enthusiasts and while the number of games which need more than 16GB can be counted on one hand, the number of games which can gain a noticeable boost from going into the DDR4-3400 range are equally small. Considering some ‘slower’ 32GB kits can be found for nearly what this 16GB kit can cost, some consumers may want to think long and hard if this combination of blazing speed but only moderate capacity is the right one for their needs.
Now with that taken care of, for actual enthusiasts this kit from G.Skill is bloody fantastic. $110 for 16 Gigabytes worth of perfectly stable, extremely high performing ram is a bargain. This is because for every scenario that favors capacity over speed, there are nearly as many that favor speed over capacity. Thanks to Intel Skylake’s fantastic memory controller, and fantastic RAM overclocking options, opting for even DDR4-2666 will actually bottleneck some major applications – and not just synthetic programs either. For example, real world programs like PhotoShop or the various video encoding programs, all demand as fast a memory buffer as you can afford to provide it with. For consumers who do in fact have a need for speed the additional few dollars for this kit over a DDR4-2666 kit is money well spent. The very fact that you can easily push these to DDR4-3600 performance levels just makes this deal all the much sweeter.
If all that was not enough the fact that this kit can offer all this and look great while doing it really does solidify our opinion of the Trident Z DDR4-3400 kit. To be blunt this kit can easily take an already good looking system build and make it look better. For these reasons, we have zero issue in recommending the new Trident Z series in general, and for enthusiast have very little qualms about doing it with this particular kit. Its fast, its good looking, and it is perfectly stable even when overclocked. What more could anyone ask for‽
