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Silicon Power 2x16GB DDR4-3200 XPOWER Turbine RGB Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2020-02-18

The XPOWER Turbine RGB 32GB kit from Silicon Power does offer wide compatibility for configuration in terms of LED lighting, while the Samsung ICs are carefully selected from the factory, in order to stay stable at the programmed XMP timings. In our case, the kit has performed interestingly well at 3000MHz instead of the rated 3200Mhz, which leaves us suspecting that the pre-programmed timings were more relaxed than the kit was capable of. When testing with the rated CAS timings and leaving the others on Auto, we managed to squeeze more performance out of the kit, but going further was not possible since the system was unable to boot.

Test Setup and Test Results Part I

Test Setup

CPU: Intel i7 9700K Retail

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Currently tested kit

Video: XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 RAW II Ultra

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master HAF 922

The pre-programmed timings and frequencies can be also found by using AIDA64; the DRAM IC manufacturer is listed as Micron:

Besides testing the memory modules at XMP timings, we have also compared the results with the ones obtained at 2133, 2400, 2666 and 3000. The results were pretty much interesting, since we have obtained the best results at 3000MHz by leaving the primary CAS latencies, while the rest were configured by the Z370 AORUS Ultra motherboard and not at 3200Mhz. As a secondary test case, we have also disabled XMP and ran the memory at the stock main CAS timings but left all others on Auto. In some cases, we have seen improvements over the XMP profile, as it can be seen from the test results; running at higher frequencies than stock resulted in a non-bootable computer.

Test Results

SuperPI XS 1.5 2MB

GeekBench 4

Blender Ryzen Rendering

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