Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600MHz Desktop Memory (CMK16GX4M2D3600C18)

Memory didn't work with my B550 motherboard. This LPX memory has kind of a bad reputation in the first place. Originally I had a 3000 Mhz kit of the same kit with the same issues as this 3600 Mhz kit. Did a little bit of research and learned that it's a very common issue where these memory modules can't run at their rated speeds. When I had the original 3000 Mhz kit I was limited to 2133 Mhz (base). If you're looking to run it at 2133, I guess they're fine. But people looking for 3600 Mhz sticks are probably going to want to run at that speed. Ended up getting a kit of Crucial Ballistix 3600 Mhz and it runs flawlessly with XMP.

While I normally wouldn't write too many reviews. I think buyers should bewarned, it seems there's a high chance for obtaining unstable sticks of ram. While it's rated for XMP profiles, it seems that I must have been an unlucky son of a gun. After installing, within a few hours there was system instability in one of the sticks causing memory corruption. While I was down to utilizing just half of what I bought, the other stick randomly seemed to have experienced total failure with the inability to boot. If your looking to purchase ram, it might be better to buy a different brand. Or just be careful and realize you might wanna be more prudent in doing ram tests and checks before leaving them installed.

Bought this RAM for my first try at a personal desktop build, Very happy with this product. Very sturdy components. I paired this with the following: ASUS TUF X570 MB, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, (2) M.2 SSD cards, EVGA GeForce 1660 SC Ultra, and Corsair 650W power. Overall extremely happy with these cards and how they compliment my mid-grade build. Plenty of speed and power for the purpose of my build (every day computing + some games). Clean look. Have not had any performance or cooling issues to date. Absolutely would recommend for anyone looking to build a modular/affordable PC.

I added this ram to my current system to run a 4x8gb configuration with a ryzen 3700x (same manufacturer, frequency, cas, and model number). Improved my time spy score from an average of 9500 to over 10k and FPS in ac Odessy by around 7-10 at 1440p. Not insignificant improvements for just two sticks of ram. Make sure to turn on docp or xmp to take advantage of the speed and timings advertised. I dropped a star because of stability. It took some tweaking to get the system stable again, but that’s more of amd having poor memory controllers than the ram.

This 3.6GHz / CAS18 memory paired very well with Zen 3 5800X with XMP on an MSI B550 board and HeavyLoad ran without any issues for 3 hours confirming a highly stable system. HeavyLoad puts unrealistically heavy load on the PC so for my purposes - video editing or gaming for a few hours - this memory (and the overall system) is a winner. Noticed ~10 fps gain in Control over 3.2GHz/CAS16 memory from my son's system, which doesn't hurt either though no one should upgrade from 3200 to 3600 for just that gain. Highly recommended.