Kingston's Fury Beast kit eschews flashy RGB and huge heat sinks in favour of a design that's subtle and discrete. If your PC is sitting under a desk, out of sight and mind, do you really need a lot of bling? In total we spent a few weeks testing 41 games and we'll take a look at the side-by-side comparison across all those games in a second. But if we look at an average graph, calculated using the geomean, we see that on average DDR5 memory offered just a 3% boost at 1080p, 2% at 1440p and then one percent at 4K. There's not really much to complain about the XPG Lancer DDR5-6000 RAM kit. I just have a problem with recommending DDR5 over DDR4 if you're building a new PC. Latency is terrible with a C40 rating, but the significantly higher speeds make up for this, which shows in the benchmarks against the C16 DDR4 modules.

DDR5 is the absolute king for performance in new games like Wonderlands. I’m excited to see what advantages DDR5 offers other new games.”We recommend a minimum of 16GB for most serious gaming PCs (it's what we use in our high-end PC build), but as 32GB DDR5 kits are so widely available, 32GB has become the new baseline for a DDR5 system.With 32GB, you'll have more than enough for pretty much every task you can throw at your system. You'll easily be able to enjoy gaming, multitasking, creative or intensive apps, and frequent alt-tabbing. And you'll be all set for a few years to come, too. How fast should RAM be for a gaming PC? A few weeks ago we reviewed Intel's new Alder Lake architecture for the first time and with it we also got our first chance to play around with DDR5 memory. In our Core i9-12900K review, we tested both DDR4 and DDR5 memory in a range of applications and games, to find that the faster, more expensive memory offered little extra performance for the most part, and this was particularly true for gamers.

G.Skill is in my opinion the best memory vendor. It's always releasing faster and faster memory that rarely disappoints. This Trident Z5 DDR5-5600 CL28 kit is genuinely unique. I'm not aware of anything similar. The G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo is some of the fastest DDR5 RAM you can get for an AMD system, featuring up to 6,000MT/s for high data access, write, and copy speeds whether for everyday use, content creation, or gaming. Secondary and tertiary timings could still be slightly lower, but the dual-rank modules don’t like too low values.In DDR5's current state, DDR5-6000 memory kits have the appropriate balance between performance and cost. They're faster than your typical DDR5-5200 or DDR5-5600 alternatives but don't carry the hefty premium of the higher-end DDR5-6600 options. The Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 C36 is everything that you would expect from a memory kit of this caliber and timings. You can't complain about the performance, and it's slightly slower than the Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6000 C36, which has similar timings but a 0.05V lower DRAM voltage. However, if you crave more performance, the Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 C36 has some gas left in the tank. CL/CAS Latency - Column Access Strobe Latency is the delay between the memory controller requesting data from the RAM and the available data; the first number listed in a kit's timings. While not the most eye-catching kit on the market, this DDR5 RAM kit from PNY offers incredible performance for the price, making it a great option for PC builders looking to make a more affordable PC gaming rig without having to sacrifice too much in the way of performance. is perfect for most gaming computers. Even if you work professionally, then in most cases, it will be enough. As is almost always the case when looking at the best memory, it's generally overkill and only makes sense if you've got an equally high end system to match. You're not going to pair 4800MHz memory with an Intel Core i9 12900K and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti system. On the flipside, you won't buy this kit to use with a 12100F and GTX 1650 system. It's important to use it with a balanced system.

Firstly, you should use a dual-channel kit wherever possible. That goes for both DDR4 and DDR5 systems. That will ensure you're getting the most out of the best CPUs for gaming. For an Intel DDR5 system, a good kit around the 5200MHz range will be fine, while for a high-end system, you'll want something a little faster at 6000MHz or even 6400MHz if you really want to get every last drop of performance. Do I need RGB LEDs on my memory DIMMs? With 2x the burst length, 2x the banks, 2x the bank groups, two independent 32-bit channels for non-ECC modules and the same bank refreshes, DDR5 greatly improves channel efficiency over DDR4. Moreover, DDR5’s launch speeds of 4800MT/s is 50% faster than the maximum DDR4 speeds of 3200MT/s. Both the improved channel efficiency and fasterspeeds of DDR5 helps break through DDR4’s bandwidth limitations for data-heavy applications and workflows — not just during testing, but in real-world conditions.Yes, if you own or want to invest in a high-performance platform. Intel’s 12th/13th Gen Core (code named Alder Lake/Raptor Lake) and AMD’s Ryzen 6000/7000 Series (code named Rembrandt/Raphael) are high-performance platforms bringing users more CPU cores than ever before. Here are two reasons why DDR5 is a better choice for these platforms: It's a perfect set and forget kit. At just 1.1V, it runs cool. It's a great pairing for a B660 build and its low height means it's a lot easier to use with large air coolers compared to many kits on the market. The problem is, I expect DDR5-4800 CL40 memory to be slower than DDR4-3600 CL16, so what's the point of paying a 20% premium for slower memory? s is what AMD recommends for the latest Ryzen processor series, so the memory kit we are presenting perfectly matches the recommended specifications and the maximum capacity per module available.