V-Color Manta XPrism DDR5 6200 CL36 review - Final Words & Conclusion

Final Words & conclusion

The V-Color Manta XPrism 6200 CL36 kit offers users an outstanding performance already out of the box. It looks nice (but it’s not the best-looking kit out there); also, there’s RGB applicable here. The heat spreader comes in black and white; we got the latter. Also – there’s a version of the kit with two dummy modules (with an RGB), so you can fill the empty motherboard slots and make it look more attractive. The range of available frequencies is extensive. The slowest module in this series operates at 5600 MHz, and the fastest one reaches an astounding 6400 MHz. Users should be satisfied with the V-Color offer. As with the others DDR5 kits, it is aimed only at Intel users (for now).

Aesthetics

V-Color has made the Manta XPrism rather attractive; you may opt for a black or white-themed heat spreader. You can set an RGB using the motherboards utilities. There’s a version of the kit with two dummy RGB modules, which can fill the empty motherboard slots and make it look better.

Tweaking

The memory chips used here come from Hynix. We achieved a nice tweaked CL34 with 6400 Mhz at 1.4 V (1.2 V is the baseline value). You can always lower the latencies further (CL32?) and leave the standard 6200 MHz frequency. Still, you’d better try to cool the memory down with some active cooling for the best results (as this is kit rather hot, reaching 60° Celcius at stock settings). As we usually state –reproducibility is never guaranteed, and your results may vary.

Conclusion

The V-Color kit that we checked provides a default frequency (6200 MHz) that will be enough for practically all users, and the XMP 3.0 profile makes life easier. The stock performance is in a range of expected (very close to the high-end). There’s some headroom still available, so if you want more, you can try to overclock the memory even further. The reviewed kit on our Z690 platform made it possible to achieve 6400 MHz with CL34. It’s a great result; you need to remember that those are 16 GB modules. The low-profile heat spreader (41 mm), so you shouldn’t encounter any clearance problems with most air CPU coolers. The 32 GB option is a lot for most users nowadays. This 2 x 16 GB kit is ~720 USD, which is expensive, but you need to remember that it’s high-end RAM. However, there’s a competition with a similar price, so it can be tough to shine in the market. The current price for the DDR5’s is very steep (mainly due to the shortage of the PMIC), and it still doesn’t look to be lower in the coming days. We can give V-Color a “Guru3D Recommended” award for this fast, overclockable, capable kit with two dummy RGB modules, making the build look better than with two empty ones on the motherboard (although – in the one used in a test – it wasn’t applicable). The temperature is relatively high from the negative aspects, reaching about 60° Celcius. But the price is the main downside of such a high-end kit (same as for most of the DDR5’s). Most users won’t accept it at the moment. Especially when compared to the DDR4 kits, you’ll get not so much worse performance results (for now, at least compared to the current available DDR5 memories, probably it’ll look different with the Intel Raptor Lake or AMD AM5 CPUs, especially with frequencies above 6400 MHz).

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