
I would like to tell you a story about when I reviewed DDR5 RAM for the second time. I was playing around with clock speeds and XMP settings, and being a tad overconfident with our official GamesRadar+ testing PC.
I was benchmarking 32GB of PNY’s XLR8 MAKO memory (which is certainly up there with the best RAM for gaming ), and pairing it with a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 processor. I pushed the system to train the RAM beyond 6000MHz, and although the RAM was capable of it, the PC and CPU were not. The testing PC wouldn’t boot, and I had a small heart attack that I’d bricked my work’s expensive gaming rig.