Team Group Night Hawk RGB 16GB DDR4-3000 Review

[Crashman]

Teamgroup joins the RGB battle: Does its Night Hawk stand up to those already entrenched?

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[tingRe]

How sad. Idiots spend money on DDR4 RAM that has programmable LEDs on it.

 

[tingRe]

So this dual-channel kit runs around 3500 MB/s? Ant old Socket 1366 machine will beat that with triple channel DDR3 ECC RAM that sells for less than $2 per MB.

A (vintage from 2009) Dell Precision T7500 with a second processor installed running 6 channel DDR3 will more than double that.

It's about channels, not latencies. Buy a system that supports a lot of RAM channels. Then buy a lot of cheap RAM. For the $129 you spend on 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, you could get 48GB (6x4GB) DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz that will double the bandwidth in the right machine.

I give up on Tom's Hardware. It's a site for people who want pretty lights, and the crooks that sell them slow, overpriced junk machines.

 

[JimmiG]

@TINGRE, those were the data rates, "clock speeds" or MT/s.
At 3000 MT/s, dual channel DDR4 gives you about 38 GB/s.
With my 3200 C14 dual-channel kit and Ryzen 7, I get about 47 GB/s actual bandwidth in AIDA64 benchmark (it's higher than the 41 GB/s theoretical due to caches and pre-fetches), and a latency of about 72.5ns. Also, latency is important for many things including games.
If you just wanted lots of cheap RAM then an old workstation board with DDR3 support is a good bet, but lots of people care about IPC, clock speeds, modern instruction sets and core counts too.

 

[Nintendork]

Or maybe just buy ram at right moment for later. 1 year go you could ger 32GB of DDR4 2600-3000 CL15 for $150-170 at most.

 

[willgart]

@Tingre: the latency is important when you compare the same things! if you compare a system with 1*8GB to a 2*4GB you dont compare the same things.
in your example (where 6*4GB = 24GB not 48GB by the way... )
having 6*4GB of low latency RAMs is better than 6*4GB of high latency ones...

but I agree that we should have a pricing comparison. if you want 32GB of RAM, what's best? 2 * 16GB ? 4 * 8 ?

 

[willgart]

mmm... does the LED supports the black color? ;-)

 

[Crashman]

@Tingre: the latency is important when you compare the same things! if you compare a system with 1*8GB to a 2*4GB you dont compare the same things.
in your example (where 6*4GB = 24GB not 48GB by the way... )
having 6*4GB of low latency RAMs is better than 6*4GB of high latency ones...

but I agree that we should have a pricing comparison. if you want 32GB of RAM, what's best? 2 * 16GB ? 4 * 8 ?

We already did that.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/super-talent-project-x-f3000ux16g-ddr4-memory,5038.html
You want at least four banks.
If you don't know how that applies to your question, maybe you should read the article

mmm... does the LED supports the black color? ;-)

Only in a very dark room