Difference between Ripjaws 4 and V?

[Mattb81]

I'm seeing several DDR4 variants of Ripjaws, both 4 and V at the same Hz ratings.

What's the difference between them?

 

[Traciatim]

Ripjaws 4 have pointier bits on top. They look like little castles... where the V look more like solid walls without the pointy bits.

In all seriousness though. RAM with the same voltage and timings for all intents and purposes are exactly the same performance wise. Just buy what's on sale at the time.

 

[Mason1204]

They are pretty much the same with the only differences being that the ripjaws V have a couple more options when selecting your size stick. Also the ripjaws V have a very small height difference.

 

[Tradesman1]

The Ripjaws 4 were designed towards X99 and can offer slightly better performance in the true quad channel environment, the RipJaws V on the other had are designed towards Z170 mobos and Skylake CPUs that primarily will run dual channel. They also just released part of the new Trident Z line of DRAM which is their high end sticks and aimed at Z170 also

 

[Blacksuv]

The Ripjaws 4 were designed towards X99 and can offer slightly better performance in the true quad channel environment, the RipJaws V on the other had are designed towards Z170 mobos and Skylake CPUs that primarily will run dual channel. They also just released part of the new Trident Z line of DRAM which is their high end sticks and aimed at Z170 also

The asus hero viii manual approves ripjaws 4 at 2666. Are you saying you can also use ripjaws 5 and trident z? And for z170 is dual channel any better than quad? I'm building this https://pcpartpicker.com/user/AppleWood/saved/#view=yTqCmG

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes, definitely 😉 The Hero was released prior to the RJ V and Trident release. I originally grabbed a set of RJ V for my Hero as I waiting for the Tri Z release, then got the Tri Z and have since grabbed a set of the new TriZ 16 modules. (They recently released new models of bot RJ V and Tri z in 2800-3200 with a 14 CL using both 8 and 16GB sticks - very sweet DRAM

 

[Blacksuv]

Yes, definitely 😉 The Hero was released prior to the RJ V and Trident release. I originally grabbed a set of RJ V for my Hero as I waiting for the Tri Z release, then got the Tri Z and have since grabbed a set of the new TriZ 16 modules. (They recently released new models of bot RJ V and Tri z in 2800-3200 with a 14 CL using both 8 and 16GB sticks - very sweet DRAM

the voltage at 2666 is 1.2 and goes up to 1.35V past 2666... So two 16GB Trident Z's at 3000 will be killer and won't get hot?

 

[Tradesman1]

Mine don't and currently I have the 2x16GB 3200 paired with a 2x8GB pair (from my 4x8GB set) so am running 48GB total (in sig)