G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 4000 (PC4 32000) Desktop Memory Model F4-4000C18D-64GTRS

Pros: It works on my ASUS Z490-ITX board.

Cons: None I can think of.

Overall Review: Overall, works fine. When in the BIOS advance settings, you can set a profile for the RAM from auto, manual, xmp 1, or xmp 2. For some reason, when having it on xmp 2, the pc starts a couple seconds faster, everything speedy but i started getting these sudden freezes, then it would shut down. It could do this repetitive, so i set it everything in BIOS to default. pc starts at normal speed, I check the RamCache III and max bandwidth is only 2666 now, before it was 4000 and maybe that made things too hot, more power was being used, you can tell by the wattage on he ASUS PSU. Perhaps I need more cooling all around the board?? I have it on workbench with a Cooler Master ML120R Close-Loop AIO CPU Liquid Cooler, plus a gtx 970.

Pros: This kit really lets your high end 11th gen i7 and up breath. stuttering in games gone, load times dramatically reduced, fps gains of up to 20 depending on the game and previous ram compared to and of course supporting platform hardware. ( star citizen , corsair vengeance lpx )

its got rgb. I am not an rgb person I just wanted something on my motherboards compatibility list and this was the option near the top of that list that I selected.

that said the leds on this powered by third party tools like signal rgb are, admittedly, as the kids would say "sick". They are well done. the molded plastic makes them shine like gems.

Cons: immediately upon use my machine started exhibiting strange behavior in games and out. the most jarring were freezing causing alt-f4, blue-screens, and sometimes generally mostly black screens requiring a reboot.

the minor glitches were what seemed like the graphics card failing where the screens would go black just sitting in desktop and then it would get signal again.

so, at first I chalked it up to motherboard settings so i made sure to go in and turn off XMP, turbo boost, check voltage settings to verify things were not at harmful levels. everything seemed ok.

so then as luck would have it I had a second 3080 ( sweet lady luck struck again on the new egg shuffle! ) to test on. and because of that same bundle win a second motherboard. both boards and both video cards were exhibiting similar behavior. the only constants were the PSU and ram. since the PSU was new and I wasnt getting straight up shutdowns, i began to look at diagnosing a ram problem.

and lo and behold 21 errors before the first pass was done in memtest86.
plugged in my previous kit (after testing those because well might as well. they passed.) all the issues described above went away, but unfortunately so did all those performance gains.

Overall Review: I would recommend this product, because memory being bad like this is extremely rare. I am waiting on newegg to process this return in hopes I can re-visit this review soon.