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Duncan Robertson

You don’t need RAM that’s capable of 10,000MHz, but T-Force is giving it to you in pink and white colorways

T-Force XTREEM DDR5 in white and pink, on display at Computex 2024.

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. 

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