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ADATA Premier DDR5-4800 1x16GB
DDR5 · 4800 MT/s · CL40 · 1×16GB
£209.99New
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Kit profile
Price per GB
£13.12Lowest price
£209.99Capacity
16 GBSpeed
4,800 MT/sCAS latency
CL40Overview
This Premier listing sits in the same ADATA family as its 5600 sibling but at a slower rated grade — 4800 MT/s CL40 — and, unusually for a desktop-category listing, it's ECC memory rather than the non-ECC most consumer boards expect.
It ships as a single UDIMM stick, 1×16GB, for a total of 16GB, so there's no capacity or module-count decision here, just the one configuration on offer.
Because it's ECC, it needs a board and CPU combination that actually supports it — check that before assuming any DDR5 desktop socket will take it.
Technical Specifications
Memory
- Memory type
- DDR5
- Capacity
- 16 GB
- Modules
- 1
- Module size
- 16 GB
Speed & timings
- Speed
- 4,800 MT/s
- CAS latency
- CL40
Form factor & features
- Form factor
- UDIMM
- Category
- desktop
- Brand
- ADATA
- ECC
- ✓
- RGB
- ✗
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