Crucial UDIMM 16GB, DDR5-5200, CL42-42-42, 2RX8

Both of the new Crucial kits as well as the original 4800 MT/s kit that I compared them with are unique in the ram market compared to a lot of the kits you would see. All three are clocked at speeds that fall in the range of AMD and Intel’s memory clock speeds for their current CPUs. In other words, where most kits you might run into are considered overclocked kits, these are stock clock speeds. That also means that going in you don’t have to worry about their reliability which can get dicey once you start getting into higher clock speeds, dual rank memory, and when you start filling all four memory slots. The XMP and Expo profiles on both kits give you an easier to use clock speed for those situations where you need to use all four slots and then the higher clock speed for the main dual channel slots. In short, these aren’t fancy or overclocked, they are your bread and butter DDR5 kits but the new speed options help expand past the initial 4800 MT/s from the initial launch of DDR5. Keeping things simple also applies to the styling with these not having heatspreaders at all. But to be honest the all blacked out PCB looks good to me. This isn’t an old green PCB which would then not match anything. Even in a PC with a side panel, unless you want fancy RGB memory these kits would still fit the bill just fine.

We review a Crucial 32GB 5200 MHz CL42 DDR5 memory kit that roots back from Micron. This set is 5200 Mhz CL42, and that means it's a value kit that offers 95% of the performance you need, yet at a price of 125~150 EUR for 32GB. We'll test on Raptor-Lake, Intels Gen 13th series processors.

Crucial’s DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 desktop memory kits showed reliable performance in our testing, with DDR5-5200 showing notable performance benefits over DDR5-4800 and likewise DDR5-5600 over DDR5-5200. The 5,600MHz kit was actually less expensive at review time, so we see no reason to buy the 5,200MHz kit unless the price goes up. Most users won’t notice a difference between 5,200MHz and 5,600MHz, so the 5,600MHz kit isn’t worth much extra.