They make computer memory upgrades (DRAM) and solid state drives (SSDs), and offer more than 250,000 upgrades for over 50,000 systems. The modules themselves are matte black with white text, providing a neutral look – red and white colours are also available. If you are looking for a reliable and affordable way to upgrade your desktop PC, you may want to check out the Lexar DDR4-3200 (LD4AU016G-B3200GSST) desktop memory.

This review is shaping up to be a close fight – something that’s extremely impressive when you remember how much cheaper the Ballistix RGB DDR4-3600 kit is. The refreshed line of the Ballistix RAM have been on the market for over a year now, and it’s still one of the most interesting series of memory for gamers. They’re not just generous in terms of capacity, they’re also very fast, and all the benchmarks we run attest to that. According to PCMark 10, that means that our PC is better than 98% of all the personal computers in the world. Looking at the 16GB (8 GBx2) packages, we find 3600 CL16-18-18 at the bottom of the lineup, and 4000 C18-19-19 at the top end.

This adds a dash of realism to the review and shows that the Crucial Ballistix RGB DDR4-3600 kit is plenty fast enough here at XMP, never mind with a manual overclock. We’re taking a 1080p 50fps source, and exporting a short video with basic transitions at 720p 30fps. I see nothing but good things about the RAM sticks themselves, so I can't imagine the variance being that abysmal for my set? I kinda knew going into Ryzen that memory would be a kerfuffle, but not to this extent; and it doesn't help that a lot of the info seems out-of-date or inconsistent for Zen 3.

We are installing our RAM into an ASUS TUF GAMING X570-Plus Wi-Fi motherboard with a Ryzen 5 5600X CPU. With very high XMP ratings and moderately tight timings, it promises to be a contender in this space.

The Ballistix RGB DDR4-3600 2x8GB kit comes in a simple cardboard box with a window through to the modules. Through Thaiphoon Burner, we are able to see the details of this kit of memory in the image below including the SPD details.

The specific kit we are looking at today is the Crucial Ballistix 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3600 Desktop Gaming Memory (Black) BL2K8G36C16U4B kit. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. It seems like F1 2019 might bump into a bottleneck elsewhere around 280 FPS in our setup, with the 1080p Ultra High settings we’re using. To view and examine all of the various memory profiles, we use two primary tools which include AIDA64 and AMD Ryzen Master utility. As we talked about earlier, many of the existing XMP profiles on the market today are simply not compatible with Ryzen 3000 series and will not even boot when applied.First step is to make sure you are using the correct memory slots, which are the second and fourth away from the CPU and should be labeled A2 and B2.

Too bad we couldn’t test the OC capability but we will have another go at that and revise the review accordingly when we upgrade to a 3rd gen CPU.

All of the memory compared here has been tested on the same exact X570 test bench and with the same exact operating system. The Ballistix MOD software allows LEDs to be individually addressed, and has a few built-in patterns. support for automatic overclocking, Crucial Ballistix memory is engineered for the latest AMD and Intel platforms.