Header banner
Revain logoHome Page
Jasmin Rojas photo
Tunisia, Tunis
1 Level
768 Review
68 Karma

Review on ๐ŸŽฎ Enhance Gaming Performance with PNY 16GB XLR8 Gaming Epic-X RGB DDR4 3200MHz Desktop Memory by Jasmin Rojas

Revainrating 5 out of 5

It's worth it, yes. Works fine on 3600 but had a few issues.

MSI B550 Setup with AMD 5600X. Still using DDR4 2400 overclocked to 2800. So going up to 3200 should be great, not that much that's fine. On old DDR4 2800 memory, Passmark score 3144, memory latency 46. This RAM can be overclocked, but it was difficult. At first it didn't recognize the memory and wouldn't boot, so I had to clear the CMOS. Once DDR2666 had this memory by default, so in the BIOS I changed everything again, changed the RAM to DDR4-3200, timings 16-18-18-18-38 (yes, there are additional timings in MSI settings), Passmark 3457. Now DDR4-3800 overclock failed every time. So I went for DDR4-3600, the initial timings failed, but the most interesting. Going back to the BIOS, I went to the times suggested by the motherboard (no, it doesn't automatically adjust them to those times). The final works and is stable 20-19-19-19-43, passmark result 3548, delay 43. However, another interesting thing happened, my processor started to work faster. My 5600X overclocked the previous Passmark 23838, switched to 24012, not a significant 1% but interesting. The next steps are if it's possible to further adjust the PBO curve to 15 (negative) currently on all cores to see if that has anything to do with the factory clock speed improvement. Since the fabric clock is now at 6:00pm, which is its maximum value, I think I'll keep it at that speed. With DDR5 just around the corner this is a good buy until the next evolution. They cost $140 for 32GB when you buy them, compared to almost everyone else's $94 for 16GB. But this one has RGB and is controlled by the motherboard. I have an increase in my SSD from 14kb to 16kb in Passmark, but it might just be an accidental change in this rating, otherwise no notable improvement. Now more memory for editing large video files, many other things I do on my PC, now back to gaming. 19-19-39 (or MSI 18-19-19-19-39. This improved Passmark's score to 3603, slight latency reduction to 42. No other improvement in system performance. User benchmark latency is 60 ns, with multi-core at 39, 7 GB/s and single core at 34.5 GB/s.

Pros
  • Positive Impressions Only
Cons
  • Negative Impressions