Conclusion

For a kit costing (at the time of writing) £176.24 Inc VAT from Aria PC Technology, they are rather pricey but such are memory prices at this time. However, from the results we have achieved today, they are well worth the punt. With stock voltage and speeds, the Trident kit could be tightened to CL8 which is mighty impressive. Better still with a voltage increase we could run these modules at CL7 perfect for benchmarking as seen from our results. Of course Read, Write and Copy remained almost similar and more due to the fluctuations of the OS than anything, but taking a look at our latency testing, we can see how much benifit the tigter timings were giving the end user. According to Everest, our latency for stock was 43.6ns compared to CL7 timings at 35.6ns!

Pushing the memory even further than it’s rated specs (albeit with a voltage bump), we obtained 2100Mhz with CL8 which we find mighty impressive. Our benchmarks conclude how much of a benifit this is accross the board. We couldn’t seem to get past 2100Mhz no matter what voltage or timings we set. However in hindsight, this may well be due to our motherboard limitations. Backing down the memory to 1600Mhz, we achieved CL6 timings with latency timings (with regards to Everest) close to CL7 at 2000Mhz (35.6ns) but better than the 40.9ns score obtained by CL8 2100Mhz as we hit 38.1ns with 1600Mhz CL6. This was done on stock voltage which this reviewer finds to be the sweet spot.

Pros

- Aesthetics

- Overclocking both stock voltage and increased voltage

- Serious performance

- Heatspreaders keep cool

- Lifetime Warranty

Cons

- May have height issues with some heatsinks

- Expensive

G.Skill’s Trident 2000Mhz CL9 3x2GB Kit recieves our highest award for such fantastic performance and overclocking potenial. A Gold Award with 9.5/10!