G.Skill Scales Consumer Ripjaws 4 DDR4 Memory Kits to 3400MHz

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Comes with their own cooling fans

There have only been a few RAM kits we can recall that came with cooling fans, or that were recommended to pair with an active cooling scheme. Of course, those were back in the early days of DDR memory, when buying a kit of overclocking RAM could you make late with your mortgage payment that month. In any event, much as changed since then, though apparently we haven't seen the last of RAM and fan combinations -- G.Skill's new Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3200MHz and 3400MHz memory kits both with active cooling add-ons.
G.Skill bundles its Turbulence III Memory Cooling Fan with each kit. The apparatus consists of dual 50mm fans spinning at 3,500 RPM to cool your RAM while remaining quieter than a whisper from a five-foot distance (22dBA), according to G.Skill. On a standalone basis, the Turbulence III runs about $20.
Getting back to the RAM, the 16GB (4GBx4) 3200MHz kit (F4-3200C15Q-16GRKD) sports 15-15-15-35 timings and requires 1.35V, while the same capacity kit in 3400MHz (F4-3400C16Q-16GRKD) features 16-16-16-36 timings at the same voltage.
According to G.Skill, both kits are made from hand-picked ICs and go through the company's "highly selective binning process." They've also been tested for compatibility on the Asus Rampage V Extreme and Gigabyte X99-SOC Champion motherboards, though they should work with other X99 boards as well.
No word yet on price or availability.
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