Teamgroup T-Force Night Hawk 3000 MHz 16GB Dual Channel DDR4 memory review

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The heat-spreader is designed to enhance heat dissipation allowing better tweaks and overclocks, although... does anyone really physically and manually OC their memory these days? I mean that's what you purchase more expensive XMP memory for right? As a result this is not 100% low profile memory though. The idea is that heat is moved away from the actual memory chips and this increases potential overclocking and stability. 

  

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Teamgroup uses a PCB with ten layers with a total of two say ounces of copper. The DIMMs are XMP 2.0 compatible. What is XMP? XMP makes things simple, but also referred to as SPD and for AMD, Black Edition Memory Profiles (BEMP). XMP stands for eXtreme Memory Profile, a standard brought out by Intel, in a nutshell, the DRAM manufacturers load 'profiles' or data, into the SPD of the DRAM sticks that contains info for a properly written BIOS to be able to take that info and load it into the system. Once activated it will set things like DRAM freq, timings, latency, voltages and CPU multiplier for you for the DRAM to work correctly. While predominantly implemented on most all Intel based mobos, AMD mobos are starting to implement it. 

 

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Still with this design any cooler in close vicinity of the memory should install just fine. This memory is also about good looks so I decided to throw in these extra photos as the photo above says it all really. Once you power up the system the red LEDs activate and animate in breathing style. 
  

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The memory used is 3000 MHz which you can use on Intel based systems. In the BIOS just flick the XMP 2.0 compatible profile, and you'll be up and running at advertised speeds. The memory itself is optimized for the Intel Z170 / X99 platform with corresponding Skylake or Broadwell-E architecture series processors. 

 

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