Now ratified on premium AM4 boards. Memory manufacturer G.Skill took humble computer memory to a whole different style level with the release of Trident Z Royal. Updating its regular Trident Z through gold or silver heatspreaders with a mirror finish, the RGB element spans what the company calls a crystalline light bar. The overall effect is much like Marmite: you either love it or wonder what the fuss is about, but there's little denying the underlying DDR4 memory, which is available with speeds between 3,000MHz and 4,800MHz in a dizzying array of timings and capacities.

Understanding that AMD's Ryzen CPUs are gaining market share through their robust price-to-performance ratio and still-not-perfect availability of rival Intel's Core series. G.Skill reckons it make sense for enthusiasts to understand how its premium memory fares on AMD's burgeoning platform. With that in mind, we're taking a peek at a 16GB (2x8GB) pack of Trident Z Royal DDR4-3600 - these modules, to be exact.