Gigabyte AORUS RGB 2x8Gb GP-ARS16G37

New from Gigabyte

The Aorus series quickly gained the attention of enthusiasts and owners of powerful gaming computers. At one time, under the flags of Aorus, one of the first SSDs on the market that worked on a bus on the PCI-E 4.0 bus came out, and one of the first gaming monitors with a refresh rate of 360 Hz. The problem is that with RAM there is already much room for manoeuvre - DDR5 has not yet reached our edges, and from DDR4 the only thing left is to squeeze out additional megahertz, and even play with backlight. Therefore, in the case of Aorus RAM, Gigabyte offers the buyer a very tempting balance between price, speed, cooling quality and backlight brightness. At the same time, an important advantage of Aorus RAM is a limited lifetime warranty from the manufacturer.

Gigabyte AORUS RGB backlight timing

Moving on to evaluating the work of Gigabyte AORUS RGB, two things should be noted. Firstly, different revisions of the same memory can use memory chips from Hynix or Samsung, which significantly affect the behavior of the RAM during overclocking. Secondly, you need to take into account the test platform. The DDR4 SDRAM controller in AMD Ryzen processors, like Prometheus, brought really fast RAM to the masses. The problem is that the same memory can behave completely differently on Intel and AMD platforms, so everything that is said on the topic of overclocking should be divided in two. For example, some of our colleagues criticized the overclocking of Gigabyte AORUS and refused to write it to the elite ranks of memory for overclocking. But there, the tests were carried out on a PC with an AMD motherboard and Samsung memory chips.

Set of 2 16 GB modules

A pair of 8 GB sticks came to our tests, which behaved more favorably. According to Thaiphoon Burner, it uses memory chips that are tuned out of the box to operate at 3600 MHz. Timings 19-19-19-43 with a voltage of 1.4 V are recorded in the default XMP profile. 21-21-42), as well as increase the voltage to 1.45V.