Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 8GB DDR4 3200MHz Ram

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Builders who put a premium on aesthetics often face a tough choice between the best-looking and best-performance parts. Corsair brings a bit of both in its Vengeance RGB DDR4-3200 kit, providing four 8GB DIMMs (32GB total) at CAS 16 timings for a price that’s reasonably moderate given recent market trends. And this kit isn’t all about looks; it has the goods where benchmarks are concerned, too.

First, some memory basics background is in order. Latency is measured in cycles, and latency time is the inverse of frequency. Lower is better when it comes to latency. So for instance, DDR4-3200 CAS 15 would be better (fewer wait cycles) than CAS 16 at DDR4-3200, which happens to be our performance baseline, as well as the spec of this particular kit. DDR4-3200 CAS 17 would be worse (more wait cycles) than our baseline. In other words, Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4-3200 buyers get the extra bandwidth of its high data rate without suffering any additional lag.

The full 16-18-18-36 primary timing set of this kit is par for CAS 16 memory at nearly any data rate; some of Corsair’s competitors are using similar timings at DDR4-3000 and even DDR4-2666. You’ll still need a board that supports XMP memory mode to configure these settings automatically though. The highest non-XMP configuration is a comparatively pokey DDR4-2133.