Thermaltake Toughram XG RGB D5 32GB 7200MHz Review

How Much Does It Cost?

Unfortunately at the time of writing, I could not see available stock for this variant of the Thermaltake Toughram XG RGB D5 memory. However, you can check the Thermaltake website for more information or check Amazon for stock here.

Overview

I’m a big fan of the Thermaltake Toughram series, as the overall build quality and presentation is pretty exceptional. Even with the RGB off, I think these are some of the best-looking memory modules you can buy right now. However, while I like the mixture of grey, chrome and matte black, there’s a stunning Snow Edition available too that trades the dark grey for light grey and the black for white, and they look pretty amazing too! Add to that some vibrant RGB with a unique 4-zone lightbar design, and it’s easy to see these will look great in your gaming PC.

The build quality is also top tier, with an all-black thicker PCB, screened ICs, a thick aluminium heatsink, and good thermal pads on the interior. The result of this was some impressively low temperatures under full load, so there’s no real concern about heat here.

I also like that the memory posted on the XMP 3.0 profile the first time, and while that’s not that surprising when you do get up to these higher speeds, the profiles are more dependent on your CPU and motherboard, but we didn’t have any problems. That being said, we couldn’t overclock it, but when you consider it technically is already overclocked at 7200 MT/s, that’s hardly a big concern.

When it comes to performance, the Toughram excelled in some and fell behind in others, but that’s pretty common to see with memory tests and doesn’t surprise me at all. The gaming performance could do with being tuned up a little bit, but the 1% lows were pretty consistent, so I don’t have any real concerns here. For work or gaming, it’s clear that the Toughram are more than up to the task.

Should I Buy One?

With decent performance, the Toughram ticks all the right boxes. There are the slightly faster kits for certain benchmarks or games, but overall there’s no real issue with the Toughram performance, and if you’re rendering videos during the day and playing a bit of Call of Duty in the evening, you’re going to be more than happy with it. However, the thing that sets the Toughram apart has to be the design, as it has one of the best-looking and best-performing heatspreaders on the market, and I think that’ll appeal to the design-conscious system builders out there.