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G.SKILL @ COMPUTEX 2024

Published by Pedro PCMR
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One of the biggest memories I have from my very first visit to Taiwan and to Computex in 2019 was being in awe at the G.Skill booth. The sheer volume of things in display, the liquid nitrogen steam-filled overclocking competitions, the vast number and awesomeness of the mods, and all the RAM (Of course) made an impression on me.

I am happy to say that after all these years, and the troubled times we lived recently, the G.skill booth is just as spectacular.

 

 

There really is a mod for everyone here, and G.Skill has always supported the modding community and enabled some awesome builds throughout the years, with this one being no exception.

 

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The legendary beer machine. A PC mod that serves you beer. I personally do not like beer, but I do love RGB!

 

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Stuart Tonks never fails to deliver. This time with this golden beauty.

 

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Blue revival intends to celebrate Raptor-Lake and... it does have plenty of raptors. Quite a stunning piece with a moving central liquid infused sphere with a (hopefully fake) raptor incubator.

 

The project Alpha Concept case by sunglass aficionado Mike Petereyns has ATX-BTX conversion on the fly and tries to stray away from the more normalized mainstream case concepts, but retains compatibility for BTF/Back connect motherboards, like most new cases this Computex are showing. It can fit 2 360mm bottom radiators with a gigantic amount of intake (as you can see on the bottom).

 

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 They are NOT small. And I kinda like it.

 

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ShaggySVK's mod was a showstopper, even though it sometimes was a bit hard to see it, due to the sheer amount of actual liquid nitrogen steam constantly pouring from it.

 

 

G.Skill also showed a few more products outside their usual bread and butter of RAM, and here are my favorites:

 

The GA 800 AIO CPU Cooler, in this collaboration with TCOMAS. Not only does the fan design have a nice retro-arcade-gaming aesthetic I enjoy, but it features both magnetic and modular fans, but also completely swappable pump covers.

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Notice just how easy it is. I even swapped covers with one hand, while recording and talking.

  

 

 Oh, and did I mention that one of the pump covers has dual-screens? 

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You may not usually associate G.Skill with keyboards, but meet the BACK SPACE collaboration they have, with magnetic switches, 0 full jey activation, 8k polling rate and this retro colorway that I love.

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Now what you normally think about when you read G.Skill is certainly their RAM.

They had on display the new Trident Z5 Royals, in, you guessed it, gold and silver.

The Royals became an instant classic, and never fail to grab the attention of any passerby (at Computex, or whoever goes by your PC at home if you have some, including yourself).

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Now, these tend to be very divisive. I do think that the Silver has the potential to look great in most any build. The gold not so much, but if you like gold, you LOVE gold. 

Also, seeing pictures or videos of them doesn't do them enough justice. They look even better in person.

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CAMM2 is here, the brand new form-factor, and here is G.Skills. The shorter signal length, enabled just for the simple fact that it is that much closer to the actual CPU, can, in theory, enable more speed and higher bandwidth, which is glorious.

I can't wait to see how these babies will be do in the next 2 or so years, and if they can indeed become a new standard. Only the future will tell. Maybe it will be better received if motherboard manufacturers make sure the heatsinks for them have RGB?

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How about some RAM overclocking? G.Skill was showing off an AMD 8th gen system running with a DDR5 10600 Mhz kit! Now that is something.

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On Intel 14th gen, it's not quite possible to get as fast as with AMD, but G.Skill still has a 9000Mhz kit running on this micro-atx14900k build.

 

 

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