Just a quick review of this Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 OC Gaming RAM (32G, 16G x 2 kit) that I bought from Amazon US for RM420.13 (including tax). Product code is CP2K16G64C38U5B.

First of all, I thought it is cheap and good without doing much research. Turns out the best DDR5 RAM for Ryzen 9000 series should be Hynix chips. EXPO timings are:

6000 MT/s: 36-38-38-80-118, 1.35v
6400 MT/s: 38-40-40-84-118, 1.35v

Just to show you all how "overclockable" these sticks are since it is marketed as "OC Gaming". For info, it uses Micron D-die chips.





Take note that:
- These sticks run best at 1.2v memory VDD/VDDQ. Higher voltage will only make the RAM less stable. There's a review somewhere also confirmed my finding. So do ignore the default EXPO voltage of 1.35v.
- The Aida64 benchmark results are based on the above timings @ 6000 MT/s with a FCLK of 2200 and PBO disabled.
- The RAM can be pushed to higher clock speed like 6200 / 6400 MT/s but there's not much of performance gain as timings have to be loose and I don't want to run my Ryzen processor with higher Vsoc.
- So ya, despite all efforts, it's impossible to get the latency below 70ns like those Hynix chips.

For those who "accidentally" bought Crucial DDR5, you can refer to the above timings to get the most out of it (don't forget to lower the voltage to 1.2v). You can hardly find any other optimized reference timings about these chips online because Micron DDR5 are so unpopular.

Crucial is nearly always been with Micron chips whether its for RAM or NAND & RAM for its SSD.

While unpopular with DDR5, certain micron chips dies were extremely popular with DDR4 OCers as Edie are value option OC to Sam Bdies.

Not sure how you can buy all the way from USA without doing any research, but Amazon does have return policy.

Yep, I have a pair of Crucial Ballistix DDR4 in my previous system and they are great. Easily be pushed from 3200 to 3800 MT/s without much effort. So I thought their DDR5 are just as good when i saw the words "OC Gaming"

Because well, Crucial is by Micron, so of course they're gonna use their own chips

Yes which is why its odd that some peeps think their using something else. On & off they had mix with others ie Sam Bdies in certain series, but majority their using their own stuff.

Ironically if you wanted Hynix Adies you could have went with just about any brand; Kingston, TForce, Acer, etc and most likely will get.

I am guessing this is the kit in question

https://www.nikktech.com/main/articles/pc-h...nnel-kit-review

Might be able to use its method to get best perf