Crown of Snow and Ice! Unboxing Review of Shadowrun GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz Memory

Headquartered in Hong Kong, the HOF Pro DDR5 memory launched by Mercedes-Benz GALAXY, the use of all-white heatsinks and white PCBs to make the appearance quite attractive to the all-white army of consumers, the HOF Pro DDR5 series of 7000/7200/7600/8000 four frequencies can be selected, but want to buy can only cross the sea to buy parallel imports, there is a need for this special! Whether there is a need to go across the sea to buy is up to the individual.

 

GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz 32GB (2x 16GB) Memory Specs:

Capacity: 32GB (2x 16GB)
Speed: DDR5 7000 MT/s
Chronology: CL32-42-42-112
Voltage: 1.45V
Specification: 288-Pin DDR5 UDIMM
Dimensions: 133 x 48 x 8 mm
Overclocking Support: Intel XMP 3.0 Certified (Extreme Memory Profile)
Warranty: Lifetime Warranty

 

Hall of Fame GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz Memory Unboxing

The GALAXY will be withdrawn from the Taiwan market in about 2019, and from that year onwards there will be no GALAXY-related products on sale in Taiwan's sales channels, so if you want to buy related products, you can only use them by buying parallel imports across the sea. (Is it GALAXY or GALAX? Why are there two different names being used?)

Today, I borrowed a set of GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz 32GB(2x16GB) memory from a friend (aka Hardware Dude) who bought it from Taobao in China for unboxing and testing, and this set of memory cost about NT$4033 including shipping cost after discount.

Currently, there are three memory models under the Hall of Fame HOF series: HOF EXTREME, HOF Pro, and HOF Classic, and today's unboxing of the HOF Pro DDR5 comes in four frequencies of 7000/7200/7600/8000, and the memory capacity seems to be limited to only 2x 16GB (32GB Kit) to choose from.

∆ GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz 16GB x2 memory, HOF (Hall of Fame) series.

∆Only for Better Performance.

The unboxing of ∆ HOF series memory still has a sense of ceremony, and the author has touched the DDR4 version before with a similar feeling. Currently, most of the memories available in Taiwan lack a sense of ceremony in the "unboxing" part.

 

The size of HOF Pro DDR5 is 133 x 48 x 8 mm, and the height of HOF Pro DDR5 is 4.8 cm with the addition of the cooling fins, so I would recommend to use an integrated water-cooled cooler for the installation, in order to avoid the possible installation conflicts with the air-cooled cooler.

The large white radiator with reflective metal stripes is very eye-catching even when the power is off. Do you think I borrowed it for overclocking? Do you think I borrowed it for overclocking? No, I borrowed it to see how it looks in real life!

∆Memory Gold Finger comes with a dust cover!

∆ The backside of the memory uses a mirrored pattern design.

∆ HOF Hall of Fame Collection Logo.

∆ Reflective metal decoration.

 

Shadowrun HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz is a single-sided die configuration (1R x8), and if you look closely, even the 10-layer PCB is in white, but unfortunately, the memory die is still .....

∆ 1R x8 one-sided particle configuration.

∆ White PCB.

 

Let's take a look at the appearance of the camera.

 

The GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 comes with an ARGB light bar and supports the board's lighting control software, which allows users to control the color and mode through the board's software.

 

AMD Platform Memory Performance Test

First of all, we will use AMD Ryzen 7000 platform which supports DDR5 memory to see how this set of memory performs on AMD platform. We will use AMD Ryzen 9 7900 processor and MSI MEG X670E ACE motherboard to test the Shadowrun GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz memory, and the motherboard BIOS was updated to 7D69v1D5(Beta version).

 

Testing Platform
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (PBO AUTO)
Cooler: AMD Wraith Prism
Motherboard: MSI MEG X670E ACE (BIOS version: 7D69v1D5 [Beta version])
Memory: GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz 2x 16GB
Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition
Operating System: Windows 11 Professional 23H2
System Drive: Kingston A2000 NVMe PCIe SSD 500GB
Power Supply: FSP Hydro PTM PRO ATX3.0 (PCIe5.0) 1200W
Case: STREACOM BC1 Benchtable V2
Graphics driver: GeForce Game Ready 551.23

 

In the BIOS of the MSI MEG X670E ACE motherboard, you can see that there is only one XMP Profile profile built into this memory, and the nominal DDR5 7000 MHz can only be reached by opening the XMP Profile 1 profile (7000 CL 32-42-42-112 1.45V).

∆ JEDEC frequency is DDR5-4800.

∆ XMP Profile 1: DDR5-7000 CL32-42-42-112 1.45V.

 

Again. CPU-Z Looking at the AMD Ryzen 9 7900 and MSI MEG X670E ACE platforms, you can see on the SPD page that the GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 uses SK Hynix memory chips, which according to the Chinese data is A-Die, but I can't vouch for this without taking it apart, and it supports the latest Intel XMP 3.0 one-click overclocking technology.

∆ AMD platform CPU-Z.

 

follow AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark Test the read/write performance of the GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5.

With XMP Profile 1 on the DDR5-7000, the read/write performance is 79586 MB/s and 95069 MB/s with 70.1 ns latency.

After manually overclocking to DDR5-8000, the read/write performance can be further increased, the test results are 86616 MB/s and 89,481 MB/s, with a latency of 67.0 ns. However, the author can't overclock to the higher DDR5-8200, which is the upper limit of the platform's physical performance.

∆ XMP Profile 1 DDR5-7000 test results.

∆ Manual overclocking to DDR5-8000 test results.

 

Intel Platform Memory Performance Test

Next, we used Intel Core i9-13900K test platform supporting DDR5 memory and XMP 3.0, MSI MEG Z690I UNIFY motherboard, and updated the BIOS to version 7D29v1G to test the Shadowbase GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz.

Testing Platform

Processor: Intel Core i9 13900K (QS)
Cooler: ENERMAX LIQMAXFLO 360 ARGB (full speed)
Motherboard: MSI MEG Z690I UNIFY ( BIOS version: 7D29v1G )
Memory: GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5 7000 MHz 32GB (2x 16GB)
Display Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC
Operating System: Windows 11 Professional 22H2
System Drive: Plextor PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 2280 SSD 512GB
Gaming Disk: Intel 670P 2TB M.2 2280 PCIe SSD (Solidigm)
Power Supply: MONTECH TITAN GOLD 1200W
Graphics driver: GeForce Game Ready 551.23

 

By the same token CPU-Z View Intel Core i9 13900K test platform.

∆ Intel platform CPU-Z.

 

Also use AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark To test the read/write performance of the GALAXY HOF Pro DDR5, with XMP Profile 1 DDR5-7000 turned on, the test results were 110060 MB/s read/write and 97337 MB/s read/write, with a latency of 60.1 ns.

The author also manually overclocked to the maximum 8266 MHz and conducted tests, the test results were 126970 MB/s and 104100 MB/s for reading and writing, with a latency of 58.2 ns, while the higher 8400 could not pass the self-test of the motherboard.

∆ XMP Profile 1 DDR5-7000 test results.

∆ Manual overclocking to DDR5-8200 test results.

∆ Manual overclocking to DDR5-8266 test results.

 

Conclusion

Because now the shadow Chi GALAXY has no agent or business plan in Taiwan, so you want to buy this set of memory can only buy parallel imports, but the good thing is that the memory has a lifetime warranty, so you want to send back to China to send a repair "should" still have a way to deal with it, but whether it's worth it with the trouble depends on the situation of consumers to decide, the author is still more recommended to look for the Taiwan can be directly replaced by the brand more convenient! The author still suggests that it is more convenient to look for a brand that can directly replace the product in Taiwan.

The all-white exterior and ARGB lighting effects are quite attractive and will appeal to white PC gamers to a certain extent, but the higher heatsink height may not be so friendly to some air coolers.

For the performance part, the XMP Profile starting from DDR5 7000 MHz, the current 4DIMM motherboards with better memory overclocking performance should be able to open and use it, but whether it can be used stably or not is still not certain according to the difference in the platform quality that each person has, but if you want to open the DDR5 7000 MHz XMP Profile, the first thing we still recommend to do is to update the BIOS to a newer version. to a newer BIOS version.