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.

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.