Introduction

Its not often that we see major changes in the computing industry regarding your computers memory. Every few years a new standard of memory appears that offers the next boost beyond that of the old. DDR3 is no different to this trend, offering greater speeds at voltages that are gradually getting lower.  Today sees the beginning of a new era where one company has aimed to take this trend to a whole new level, that only a few months ago would have seemed an impossibility! Just as before with our previous review on the G.Skill ECO CL8, G.Skill has set yet another new boundary, this time promising even lower latencies.

Company Background

Founded in 1989 by a select group of enthusiasts in Taiwan; G.Skill was set from this day forth to develop and produce high quality memory for the desktop computer as we know it today. Only really hitting the mainstream as a reputable manufacturer of RAM in mid 2003; G.Skill set about developing high speed, high quality products for both the mainstream and enthusiast alike. The latest achievement has been that of the RipJaw range of high performance low voltage DDR3 designed with Intel’s i3, i5 and i7 in mind. With time comes the development and manufacture of newer and possibly greater products. Today faces no exception to this rule with the release of another variant of the G.Skill ECO series of memory for the i3, i5 and i7 range of Intel CPUs. Rated to run at speeds of 1600mhz (pc12800) with latencies of 7-8-7-24 and a mind blowing low of 1.35v out of the box; the ECO series ram looks to improve on the already awe inspiring ECO series of ram for both the mainstream and enthusiast world. G.Skill produces some of the industry’s best memory modules, however with competitive pricing towards the lower end of the pricing scale.  G.Skill have products aimed at both the enthusiasts within the market, and with these low prices have also managed to keep the mainstream user in the loop too. To see if this new line of ultra low voltage memory can keep up with the already proven 1.65v range and previously reviewed 1.35v range of already released memory, we set forward with the task of seeing exactly what the new G.Skill ECO cl7 kit is all about.