G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit Review

A Closer Look
The G.Skill PIS Series is a sharp-looking memory module, matte black in color with deep blue graphics. G.Skill used a typical green PCB that does clash a little with the blue graphics.

G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit

I have had at least a dozen different memory kits with different styles of heatspreaders above and beyond the typical style, most having various styles of fins or pin-fins designed as part of the heatspreaders. A few others had fins attached with screws or adhesive. The G.Skill PIS Series heatspreader is of the former design, built of heavy aluminum with a hollow area protruding above the PCB with slits for maximum air movement. There are additional extrusions on the sides of the heatspreaders for extra cooling.

G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit

The memory is tested to run at DDR3-2400 at timings of 9-11-9-28, with Intel’s required VDIMM of 1.65v. The G.Skill kit is the only DDR3-2400 4GB kit listed at my favorite online retailer. Actually, G.Skill also has the only DDR3-2300, one of two DDR3-2200 kits, and the only DDR3-2100 (PC3-17066) listed there too. Kind of odd actually, seems that the “household name” companies would have taken DDR3 far beyond DDR-2000 by now.

G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit

Included with this kit (and all the others I mentioned in the last paragraph for that matter), G.Skill has included a very nice fan for actively cooling the memory kit. They call it “Turbulence Fan”. The frame is made of a surprisingly heavy plastic material, and the gray highlight is made of a soft rubber, I assume for sound deadening. The frame is of very high quality and is very impressive. I have owned a couple of other memory module cooling setups, and although they were both made of aluminum, this one blows both of them away.

G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit

The frame locks on the sides of the memory after installing the memory in a motherboard, there is a soft rubber material that will be touching the memory modules, again I would imagine to prevent transmitting vibration from the fan to the memory modules.

G.Skill PIS Series DDR3-2400 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit