Page 10 - Overclocking and Conclusion
If you do not care about fancy heatspreaders or RGB LEDs and just want good old high quality memory, Crucial your back: The CT2K16G48C40U5 DDR5-4800 2x16GB sticks to the company's OEM roots and produced a solid set of computer RAM with no frills. Now, if you think OEM-grade memory are not overclockable, you would be wrong. Micron has long been known for quality ICs, and the D8BNJ chips on the CT2K16G48C40U5 is no exception. In our case, we were able to take our kit to DDR5-5600, Prime95 stable, by relaxing the latencies to 42-41-41-80 from 40-39-39-77 and increasing the voltage to 1.35V. This represented a solid 14.3% overclock, as shown in our screenshot above. Furthermore, according to our tests, the Crucial DDR5-4800 2x16GB delivered great performance when paired with our latest 12th generation Intel CPU at stock speeds. Sure, it is not as fast as some of the DDR5-5200 to DDR5-6200 RAM it was compared against, but this DDR5-4800 set held its own in pretty much everything other than the synthetic memory tests. As always, Crucial includes lifetime warranty with this product should anything go wrong, so you can be assured you will be covered for any issues down the line. For about $170 at press time, the Crucial CT2K16G48C40U5 DDR5-4800 2x16GB may not have heatspreaders or RGB LEDs to give off performance RAM vibes, but it does not need it. This is because once installed inside your PC, it has the numbers to back it up.
Crucial provided this product to APH Networks for the purpose of evaluation.
APH equal.balance Award
Since April 30, 2007, Number Ratings have been dropped for all CPUs, motherboards, RAM, SSD/HDDs, and graphics cards. This is to ensure the most appropriate ratings are reflected without the inherent limits of using numbers. Everything else will continue using the Number Rating System.
More information in our Review Focus.
The Crucial CT2K16G48C40U5 DDR5-4800 2x16GB is a solid set of computer RAM with no frills -- just good old performance and reliability, plus some overclocking headroom on top.
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 CPU
4. Benchmark: AIDA64 FPU
5. Benchmark: AIDA64 Memory
6. Benchmark: PCMark 10
7. Benchmark: 3DMark
8. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 10
9. Benchmark: SuperPI 1M, Cinebench R23
10. Overclocking and Conclusion
