INTRODUCTION

   With the very first retail pieces of DDR5 RAM by all the leading manufacturers just months away from their official debuts it's really just a matter of time before DDR4 becomes what DDR3 is today. Still i just don't see it going anywhere anytime soon (DDR5 may allow for higher clocks/speeds and capacities/amounts but in terms of cost it seems to be considerably more expensive) so that shouldn't discourage people from updating their systems with new DDR4 RAM (or getting a new motherboard). So, with that out of the way in mid-May several of the latest DDR4 kits arrived in the lab including the dual-channel XPower Zenith RGB 32GB 3600MHz model (2x16GB) by Silicon Power which is also at the center of today's review.

   Founded in 2003 by a group of enthusiastic data storage industry experts, Silicon Power is committed to delivering outstanding product and service quality. Headquartered and with our own state-of-the-art production site in Taipei, we have become a leading manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, solid state drives, DRAM modules and industrial-grade products. As an international player with four branch offices around the globe, we continuously strive to offer the perfect data storage solution for all requirements of modern digitalized life. With a strong focus on combining innovative technology and award-winning design, we live up to our brand promise to reliably preserve and protect your most valuable data. Because memory is personal.

       The XPower Zenith RGB line of RAM kits so far includes 6 single channel (8/16GB) and 6 dual-channel (2x8/16GB) kits with frequencies going all the way up to 3600MHZ (3200/3600 - 4133MHZ on the roadmap), timings as low as CL16 (3200MHZ CL16 - 3600MHZ CL18 – upcoming 4133MHZ at CL19) and voltages all the way up to 1.4V (3200/3600 1.35V – upcoming 4133MHz at 1.4V). Inside the grey textured aluminum heatspreaders of the Zenith RGB kits Silicon Power has placed 10-layer PCBs with 8GB single die memory chips by SK Hynix (always according to Thaiphoon burner) whereas at the top we find an RGB LED bar which is compatible with all the major motherboard sync technologies out there today (ASUS Aura Sync, Gigabyte RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light and ASRock Polychrome Sync). Typically, just like most DDR4 kits in the market today Silicon Power covers the entire XPower Zenith RGB line of DDR4 memory kits with a limited lifetime warranty.