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Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands20th anniversary of the Republic of Gamers and although we've already been treated to a special edition copper-themed Crosshair motherboard, it looks like Asus has something extra lined up for PC Gamers: its own line of DRAM kits.
Well, strictly speaking, it's just the one kit so far, and even then, it might just be a one-off, as part of the ROG celebration.reports that Asus dropped the deets on the DRAM at its ROG Day 2026 event in China, but for everyone else, there's a preview look at the DDR5 set via Apparently developed via a collaboration with Biwin, the 48 GB dual-channel kit is rated to 6,000 MT/s with CL26-36-36-76 timings. That CAS latency istight, and I dare say that a good number of AM5 motherboards won't like it very much.
Naturally, you can expect it to be fine with Asus' high-end boards, AMD and Intel flavoured, as it comes with XMP profiles for both platforms. In terms of looks, well, it's ROG-a-go-go, as you'd expect, but I have to say that I quite like the design: angular, but not garish, with a rather classy colour scheme. As for the price, Videocardz says that it's listed as 5999 yuan, which directly converts to a fraction over $888.
How much of that is down to the RAMpocalypse is anyone's guess, but a 48 GB set of Biwin DDR5-6000 CL28 is. Specialised DRAM kits are always pricier than the regular stuff, so once you account for that , I reckon we'll be looking at around $850 retail. The interesting thing about all of this is whether or not Asus has been planning on entering the desktop memory market en masse.
If this DDR5 kit is the only thing it's going to release in this sector, then the specs and pricing make sense, but if it's part of a long-term strategy to announce being a competitor to Corsair, G.Skill, and many others, it couldn't have come at a worse time. ROG enthusiasts won't really care, though, and will probably try to snap up a set as soon as they can.
After all, thepart of a complete gaming PC setup that Asus currently don't offer is a CPU and a memory kit. Oh, and internal SSDs, though you can get external units. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors But if it's happy to start producing its own branded DRAM, I wouldn't be surprised if a couple of M.2 drives suddenly appeared, perhaps even followed by an Arm-powered processor by the end of the decade. Anyone fancy a 100% ROG rig? Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s.
After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark full-time, as editor-in-chief for its PC gaming section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug.
Cue four years at TechSpot.com covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open-world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days? Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend.
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