Value Award
OC Hero Award
CORSAIR
Vengeance LPX
DDR4 3600MHz
RRP: $299.99 | Website: www.corsair.com
Test Machine
• INTEL Core i7 6700K
• ASUS MAXMUS VIII Formula
• EVGA GTX 980Ti K|NGP|N
Edition
• SAMSUNG PX941 512GB
• CORSAIR AX1500i
• Windows 10 x64/ Windows
7SP1 x64
• (0014 BIOS)
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his here, is the highest
density-highest
frequency DDR4 kit
on the market (at least at
the time of writing). There are
several faster sets both from
within CORSAIR and
competing vendors, but those
sets are these kits are
comprised entirely of 4GiB
modules as opposed to the
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8GiB DIMMs this set uses. As
such, this really is the fastest
32GiB kit money can buy and
given the low selling price,
one has reason to be excited.
Since we’ve covered
Vengeance LPX modules in
the past, there’s no need
to delve into the aesthetic
elements. There simply isn’t
much to say. If that kind of
thing matters to you, then
perhaps you should consider
the Dominator Platinum
series of memory which have
a distinct and striking design
ethos.
With the LPX range, we
are purely concerned with
performance and capacity
of course. This very set
manages to provide both at an
incredible price, but the real
fun is in just how well these
modules overclock or rather
how flexible they are for
performance tuning.
Right of the bat it should be
noted as usual that memory,
especially high speed memory
from 3000MHz onwards, will
behave differently depending
on the CPU and motherboard
it is paired with. It isn’t the
case that
all memory will function as
expected with all CPUs. One
had this very experience while
reviewing this kit. The CPU of
choice suffered an untimely
demise and that particular
CPU had a fairly competent
memory controller that was
head and shoulders above
the L547B840 replacement.
Moreover, this replacement
CPU was exceptionally
inferior failing to reach
3,466MHZ on a 3000MHZ