GEIL POLARIS RGB DDR5 32GB 5200MHz Memory Review

A Closer Look

With the kit out of the box, we can get our first proper look at it. Our kit is the white variant; it has a very clean looking finish and has gone out of its way to remain true to the sci-fi theme, even going so far as to have fake bolts printed onto it.

The back of the module has the same plate design as the front; but knowing that you won’t see this side, Geil has forgone the printing, someone you’d never see in your PC anyway, especially if you have a large air cooler.

From the top-down, you can see how the RGB bar will look in your PC. Personally, I’ve always preferred a plain straight and featureless light bar, so I can get more flexibility in my choices to customize, but each to their own.

With the heat spreaders removed from the module, we can see a simple single-sided design that uses eight 2GB memory chips to get the total 16GB capacity of this single stick.

With DDR5, the voltage regulator moved off of the motherboard and onto the DIMMs themselves, this allows for better efficiency and simpler designs. This kit uses Micron memory chips, it has eight 2GB chips per 16GB stick of memory. Unfortunately, there is not much public knowledge on these chips as of yet, so all we can deduce is that with a reliable supplier like Micron we expect a stable experience.

On the other side of the DIMM, we get a glimpse of the RGB, we can see that it consists of eight LEDs that are all attached directly to the PCB of the stick.

Taking a look at the RGB circuitry, we can see the way traces have been split up into different components and make their way to the LEDs themselves.