All new motherboards and CPU's are generally an improvement over what they replace. Well, Skylake goes above and beyond and replaces the old DDR3 memory format. This is the first mainstream chip to utilize DDR4 as the memory standard, and as a result, there are a large number of new kits coming to market. Before this you could only get DDR4 in quad-channel kits for the X99 platform but since Skylake uses dual-channel memory there is a need for proper dual-challen-kits. DDR4 offers higher available speeds at lower voltages, and we will be covering one of these dual-channel kits in this review.