Get Kingston Fury Beast 16GB DDR4-3200 CL16 for £48.64 (was £60)
I’d recommend this kit for anyone building a low to mid-range system, as the performance gains you get from faster RAM level out quite rapidly from here until you hit around DDR4-3600, then evaporate almost completely. As you’ll only see the benefit of faster RAM in CPU-limited scenarios, if you plan to game at 1440p or 4K, then this RAM is also fine even in high-end systems. RAM can also influence content creation workloads, but most of the common ones - 3D rendering, video transcoding - don’t really see a noticeable speedup from faster RAM, so again this DDR4-3200 is suitable for a wide range of systems. This RAM is also quite short, with no RGB or excesssive designs adding to the height of the memory, so it’s suitable for use in systems where memory height is limited - eg small form factor builds, or builds that utilise a CPU tower cooler that overhangs the RAM slots. In terms of more advanced information, this looks like single-rank RAM; I looked online for some time to find the memory manufacturer but can’t confirm whether it’s Samsung, SK Hynix, etc. Some manufacturers hide this info in the product code, but it looks like Kingston does not - so if anyone buys this, check out Thaiphoon Burner or something to see who makes the memory modules and let me know!
