CORSAIR Vengeance
LPX DDR4 3200
RRP: $162.99 | Website: www.corsair.com
Test Machine
• INTEL Core i7 6700K
• ASUS MAXIMUS VIII Hero
• EVGA GTX 980Ti K|NGP|N
Edition
• SAMSUNG PX941 512GB
• CORSAIR AX1500i
• Windows 10 x64/ Windows
7SP1 x64
(0508 BIOS)
T
wo things that will
always remain true about
memory are that, you can
never have enough of it and
you always need it to be as fast
as possible. DDR4, should see
us well into the future and at
the current prices, it’s never
been more attractive.
For just $163, CORSAIR is
not only offering four sticks
of memory, but it’s 3200MHz
at that. Not a frequency that
will impress you in today’s
market, but remember that
at some point 3200MHz
DDR4 was retailing for well
over $1400 for an 8GB kit. In
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light of this, one always has
to appreciate just how far
memory prices have fallen
along with increased operating
frequencies.
This set for all intents and
purposes, is a run of the mill
"gaming set" of memory.
I remain unsure of what
that means as compared to
overclocking memory, but
suffice to say the real value
here is how far this memory
kit will go. As with all memory
kits, a large part of it has
everything to do with your
chosen CPU and motherboard.
Given the hardware used for
this LPX kit still managed
to impress, delivering
performance well beyond its
specification.
Default frequency
performance is largely not
worth discussing. There are
few if any situations where
any gaming experience is
improved by using high speed
memory as opposed to a
2400MHz set for instance.
This is particularly true when
using a discreet GPU. There’s
no measurable difference that
will lend itself to a better or
smoother gaming experience
in any context. To appreciate
the difference one would have
to compare 1,333MHz memory
against 3,200MHz. Only with
such a large discrepancy
in operating frequencies
would there be a somewhat
meaningful difference in game
performance etc. So do not
look to this memory to improve
your gaming performance. It
will do no such thing.
It will however and most
importantly, allow you to have
plenty of fun overclocking and
competing in the synthetic
benchmarks. Even if you’re
measuring performance in
an application not used on