Test – Corsair Vengeance RGB 4 x 8 Go DDR4 3000 MHz |Specs | Price

Hi all!

We’re going back to Corsair today with their latest memory kit, the Veangeance LED RGB in DDR4! This was to be expected from the brand that puts RGB wherever it is possible to do it, now it’s memory’s turn! The program includes a kit of 4 x 8 GB of DDR4 clocked at 3000 MHz, suitable for either Dual or Quad Channel. Of course a large LED strip is present on the top, as on the Veangeance LED tested previously here but this time the color is configurable either via the Corsair Link software or by the various RGB software of the motherboards (MSI or Gigabyte for example ).
The recommended price of the test kit is 339.99 € TTC, which places it in the average of the kits operating at this frequency (not even to mention the RGB function), even taking into account the big increase in the price of the memory to the hour of this writing. Also note that a 2 x 8 GB kit is also available, at a price of 169.99 € incl. Let’s see if this price is justified!

The Vengeance RGB kit from Corsair in today’s test is therefore a kit of 4 strips of 8 GB each, adapted to operate on Dual or Quad channel platforms.
Compatibility requires the base frequency (or SPD) to be 2133 MHz for latencies of 15-15-15-36 and a voltage of 1.2V, so the first time you install this kit it will run with this frequency, of course. in order to be compatible with almost all motherboards. To this is added an XMP 2.0 profile which, once activated in the BIOS, will allow the Vengeance RGB to work at the frequency for which they have been tested, namely 3000 MHz for a latency of 15-17-17-35 and a voltage of 1.35V. Note that as always the XMP profile is considered as overclocking, because it exceeds the base frequency of the processor memory controller (2133 MHz for “Skylake”, 2400 MHz for “Kaby lake” for example).
The price as I said is 340 €, it still hurts the wallet but it is the price to pay to have a 32 GB kit not working at a “basic” frequency.

The box directly announces the color, in fact in addition to a photo of the product we can of course find the logo of the brand but also the model. The presence of RGB is omnipresent here to clearly show future buyers the little extra of the kit. We also find the frequency for which the kit was tested, as well as the number of strips and the total capacity.

In the box we fall on 2 plastic molds each containing 2 memory modules, transport should not be a problem.

Here are the beasts! As we can see we are clearly not here in the presence of bars in the “low profile” format with a height of approximately 4.8 cm between the connector and the highest point. The heatsinks are black and made up of 2 parts, it is possible to remove the “cover” fitted with fins which covers the LEDs. The build quality is very good here as usual on Corsair briefs. On one side there is a Veangeance LED RGB sticker and on the other a sticker with the technical characteristics.

Everything is present on this sticker, the model, the capacity, the rate, the timings as well as the operating voltage. At least if we lose the box and the XMP profile does not work, it will be possible to manually put these values ​​in the BIOS.

On the top the whole is almost identical to the “classic” Vengeance LED, with one detail ready, the logo here will be illuminated once the modules are under tension, watch out for your eyes!

Note that unlike DDR3 DDR4 strips do not have a straight PCB at the pins, in the center the pins are longer than at the sides, there may be a practical reason for this, such as a drop of the breakage during the installation, I could not say!