White DDR5 memory module with RGB accent strip

DDR5-6000

Name: DDR5-6000
Brand: Flowfinds
Price: 104.25 EUR

€139 Incl. VAT, shipping included

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Not sure your board holds 6000?

Tell us your CPU and motherboard — we check it and tell you the configuration we guarantee before you pay. If it doesn’t run at that configuration once installed, we replace or refund it.

Check your configuration

DDR5-6000 is the bin.
Your memory controller decides the rest.

On AM5 the controller holds UCLK 1:1 with MEMCLK up to around 6000 — past that it drops to 1:2 and effective latency climbs. Which side of that line your exact CPU and board land on is not something a box can tell you. Tell us the machine and we will name the configuration we are willing to guarantee on it, before you pay.

One kit, named

Out comes a single recommended kit — plus a lower-cost and an upgrade option — with the reason for each. Not a filtered catalogue for you to guess from.

A certainty level, stated

Every answer carries a level from 1 to 5 saying how sure we are, and what that certainty rests on. Where we have not validated your exact board we say so rather than implying we have.

Replace or refund if it misses

If Flowfinds approves your submitted system and the RAM does not operate at the guaranteed configuration, Flowfinds pays the return cost and provides a replacement or refund.

Before it ships

Every kit is bench-tested.
The ones that fail never reach stock.

Four stages, in this order. A kit that fails any of them is quarantined and never re-enters sellable inventory — what arrives is a kit that passed, not one that was merely boxed.

1 — Inspection

Contact edge clean and unmarked, PCB straight, heat spreader seated, both modules of a pair from matching stock, and the module matches what the order says it is.

2 — Live bench boot

Installed in a real desktop platform of the correct generation — not read out with a sticker scanner. It must POST, report the full advertised capacity and hold a stable speed.

3 — Full memory-test pass

An industry-standard memory test across the entire address space, the class of tool used for this everywhere, such as MemTest86. A single error is a fail; there is no "minor error" category in memory testing.

4 — Verdict

Pass: packed and matched to the order it will fulfil. Fail: quarantined, and it never re-enters sellable stock.

A bench pass proves the silicon works. It cannot reproduce every board, BIOS version and profile combination in the field — no test process anywhere can, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise. The full process · the validation matrix, which is empty on purpose until real per-platform results fill it.

The comparison

Same silicon class.
Different amount of proof.

Mainstream premium RAM

Good performance and a trusted logo. Batch-sampled rather than unit-tested. The rated profile is printed on the box; whether your board reaches it is your problem to discover after it arrives. Priced for the brand.

Flowfinds

Every kit bench-booted and memory-tested before dispatch. Exact bin, timings, voltage, rank and module count published per capacity. A guaranteed configuration for your board before you pay, backed by replace-or-refund. Two-year warranty, 14-day refund guarantee, tracked EU, UK and US shipping in the price.

Where we hold a loaded, dated, in-stock competitor listing for a capacity, the saving against it is shown on the buy panel with the seller and the date attached. Where we do not hold one, no comparison is shown — an unbacked "you save X" is exactly the claim this site refuses to make.

Specifications

Module configuration
Memory type	DDR5, 288-pin UDIMM (desktop)
Kit	16 GB as a single 16 GB module
Channels	One module fills one of the two channels. 48 GB/s instead of 96, and on DDR5 that halving is more visible than on DDR4 because each DIMM is already two 32-bit subchannels rather than one 64-bit one. A single module is a starting point or a replacement, not the configuration this bin is for.
Speed	6000 MT/s, 48.0 GB/s per module. A 2×16 pair gives 96 GB/s against 89.6 from a DDR5-5600 pair: +7%. The larger effect is the 1:1 controller ratio AM5 still holds at this bin.
On-die ECC	Yes, mandatory in DDR5. The DRAM corrects single-bit errors inside its own array before the data leaves the chip. It does not check the link to the CPU, does not report to the OS, and is not a substitute for registered ECC.
CAS latency / timings	CL30 to CL40 at DDR5-6000, the JEDEC range for this speed class. CAS latency in nanoseconds is CL × 2000 ÷ MT/s, so at 6000 MT/s: CL30 is 10.0 ns, CL36 is 12.0 ns, CL40 is 13.3 ns. The spread across the grades is about 3 ns, which is real but smaller than the 10–15 ns the platform adds if the controller drops from UCLK 1:1 to 1:2. The bin matters more here than the CL.
Operating voltage	We read this off the SPD of the kit that would ship to you on request, before you pay. Context: DDR5 runs at 1.1 V under JEDEC, and 6000 MT/s is above every JEDEC bin, so a profile at this speed normally asks for 1.25–1.40 V, supplied by the module’s own PMIC from the board’s 12 V rail, not by a motherboard DRAM rail. Ask us before ordering if your board or workload has a hard voltage limit.
Design	White aluminium spreader with a diagonal RGB accent strip. Accent strip, not a full-width diffuser bar, less height added than the RGB DDR4 line.

More specifications

Platform support & assurance
Fits	AM5 · LGA1851 · LGA1700 DDR5 boards, check yours
Does not fit	AM4, LGA1200, LGA1151 or any DDR4 board · laptops (SODIMM)
Condition	New. Seated, POSTed at the SPD default and pattern-tested before dispatch (the process)
Availability	A physical unit count appears here only when the warehouse ledger holds one for this kit. Where none is shown we hold no count, and we print no estimate in its place, ask us and we check the shelf before you pay.
Product photography	The images on this page are the ones we hold for this line, published as they are. There is no photograph of the exact unit that would ship to you, and where we hold no photograph of a configuration we show none rather than a stock image of a different module.
Warranty	Two years from the date of purchase, handled directly by Flowfinds Solutions Kft. Covers defects in materials and function; not physical damage, overclocking beyond the module's specification, or modification. Your statutory rights are unaffected, EU consumers keep the two-year legal guarantee of conformity, UK consumers their Consumer Rights Act 2015 rights. Full terms.

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How it arrives

Packed, tracked,
at your door.

Anti‑static packaging inside a rigid outer box, tracked from the moment it leaves us.

Reviews

What buyers report.

Where it is built

Paste, placement, reflow, then test. The clips and stills below show the surface-mount process a module goes through before it is packed.

Placement and reflow, then the trays that go to test.

A finished module lifted into an anti-static tray.

Inside a surface-mount machine: the placement head above a board, with the reflow oven opening behind it — The placement head over a board, reflow oven beyond it.

Finished units in trays moving along a conveyor on a surface-mount line, with operators at benches alongside — Finished units moving down the line towards test.

Pick by machine

What machine will
you use it in?

Type of machine

In your build

In the slot.

White DDR5-6000 module installed upright in a DIMM slot on a motherboard

Engineering notes

Why 6000 and not
something bigger.

UCLK 1:1

On AM5 the memory controller runs its UCLK either 1:1 or 1:2 against MEMCLK. Most Ryzen 7000 and 9000 chips hold 1:1 up to DDR5-6000, some to 6400. Past that they fall to 1:2, which adds roughly 10 to 15 ns to every access. A DDR5-7200 kit at 1:2 frequently loses to a 6000 kit at 1:1. 6000 is where the platform actually wants to sit.

48 GB/s per module

6000 MT/s × 8 bytes = 48.0 GB/s. A 2×16 pair is 96 GB/s against 89.6 GB/s from a DDR5-5600 pair, a 7% bandwidth increase. Real, and smaller than the headline gap between the two numbers suggests.

Latency is CL × 2000 ÷ MT/s

CL30 at 6000 is 10.0 ns. CL36 at 6000 is 12.0 ns. CL40 at 6000 is 13.3 ns. A faster bin with a looser CL can land at the same nanoseconds as a slower bin with a tight one, which is why a CL number quoted without its bin is meaningless. CL30–CL40 is the JEDEC DDR5-6000 range for this line.

Single module means single channel

The 16 GB option is one module. It populates one DIMM slot, and a desktop board wants two to run both channels. If you buy 16 GB now, plan on the second module, or take the 32 GB (2×16) option.

Profile required

6000 is above JEDEC's validated grades, so it arrives as an XMP or EXPO profile. With nothing enabled the board trains at the SPD default, usually 4800. If the firmware has no profile support, this is the wrong kit, take the DDR5-5600 line, which trains on SPD.

Accent strip, not a bar

White spreader with a diagonal RGB accent. Less height added than a full-width diffuser, which is worth knowing if the cooler already overhangs slot 1.

Where this line is the wrong answer

Three builds that should buy 5600.

A board whose firmware will never see XMP enabled

6000 is above every JEDEC grade, so it exists only as a profile. On a machine nobody will configure, a prebuilt, an office desktop, a system going to someone who will not touch firmware. The module trains the SPD default and you paid for a bin that never runs. The DDR5-5600 line reaches its rated speed with nothing enabled.

A capacity-bound workload past 64 GB

If the problem is that 64 GB is not enough, a faster 64 GB does not solve it. Bandwidth helps a workload that fits; nothing helps one that does not. The DDR5 High Capacity line starts where this one stops, at 96 GB and up, in four-DIMM builds with their own stated trade-offs.

A machine that needs a stated CAS latency

CL30–CL40 at DDR5-6000 is the JEDEC class for this line rather than one fixed figure. Where a validated single timing set is the requirement, the DDR5 High Capacity line states one directly.

Buying more than one

Ten cost ten times
what one costs.

There is no volume discount ladder in our catalogue, so this is the multiplication written out rather than a tier structure designed to make a bigger number look like a saving. What quantity does change is supply, consistency and replacement stock — those terms are on the trade page.

Quantity

Price each: €139 · Order total: €139

The web checkout takes up to ten per order. Above that, a purchase order is quoted directly — trade terms.