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GALAX HOF DDR4 3600 Review

GALAX Hall of Fame (HOF) line of products are considered to be one of the best products available to the enthusiast and high end pc components lovers. HOF products are specially designed for Overclockers and gamers, giving high performance and stability to their PCs.

We like to thanks GTEK Computers India for providing us a GALAX HOF (Hall of Fame) DDR4 3600 16G(8G x 2) D4-3600 8G C17-18-18-38 1.35V memory kit for reviewing. With great design and using one of the best memory chips (Samsung B die), the GALAX HOF DDR4 3600 kit offers easy auto overclocking of memory using Intel XMP2.0 technology upto 3600MHz just made it easier for users to get high memory speeds without tickling any other settings in BIOS.

Let's see what GALAX offers with these DDR4 kit.

Features

  • Tailored especially to pick the finest "physical" IC.
  • 100% of the original IC and three tiles the stress test to ensure the stability.
  • Strong overclocking potential for overclockers
  • Unique memory radiator with detailed design for maximum heat dissipation

The best mix of the best IC and PCB to manufacturing a HOF memory— 10-layer PCB helps in making cleaner circuit layout results in reducing signal interference and significantly improving overclocking performance.

Specifications

Package

GALAX HOF DDR4 kit comes in a nice white pearl colour cardboard box that opens like a two fold book with HOF logo and Memory kit size specified in big. Back side of the packing describes Hall of Fame and product features.

Looks

Testing

For testing GALAX HOF DDR4 kit we used two different DDR4 platforms. First is the well known Intel Skylake platform with Intel i7-6700K CPU and second we used AMD latest platform RYZEN with AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU.

AMD Ryzen being a complete new platform so straight support of all the high end memories will still take some time, but as the BIOS is getting more and more mature, we will get more and more support for high speed memory kits. For our testing we manually overclocked this kit and managed to get a stable memory speed of approx 3200MHz max.

Testing with AMD Ryzen

CPUAMD Ryzen-7 1700X
Board ASUS PRIME X370-PRO
RAM2 X 8GB GALAXY DDR4 3600Mhz
SSDSAMSUNG 830 SSD
CoolerThermaltake Contac Silent 12
GFXAsus GTX 950
PSUThermaltake RGB 850W GOLD
DisplayAcer S220HQL
OSWindows 10

Manual Overclocking

Testing with Intel Skylake

CPUIntel Core i7 6700K
Board ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Formula
RAM2 X 8GB GALAXY DDR4 3600Mhz
SSD SAMSUNG 830 SSD
CoolerThermaltake Custom LCS
GFX Gigabyte GTX 970 Windforce
PSUThermaltake 1250W
DisplayAsus PB287Q
OSWindows 10

Benchmarks

Pros

  • Easy XMP 3600MHz
  • Nice white heatsink
  • Samsung B Die Chips
  • Good Overclocking
  • Nice Price

Cons

  • Just 3 Years Warranty

Conclusion

The GALAX HOF 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3600MHz kit is no dough the best DDR4 kit I have ever tested. Great performance with great scaling and definitely this kit have a great potential inside for overclocking. And the best part is that it comes with a super nice price tag of approx Rs.11K only, great deal.

But only problem I found with this kit is that it comes with only 3 years of local warranty, where as mostly all other brands are offering a Limited Lifetime warranty.

At the conclusion the GALAX HOF DDR4 3600MHz kit offers sexy white looks and gives the best what it is manufactured for. So if you are looking for a good overclockable DDR4 memory kit at a nice price, the GALAX HOF DDR4 3600 is the kit we suggest for.

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