Crucial seems to lately follow a different path from the past, introducing products that will be appealing to enthusiastic and advanced users, hence the introduction of the "PRO" and "PRO OC" series. With the latter, Crucial/Micron delivers to the market a product with increased memory speeds (6000MHz) either for Intel or AMD platforms with the inclusion of both Intel XMP and AMD's EXPO profiles in one kit, so you don't have to worry about which memory module you should buy, for which system. For now, the DDR5-6000 CL36 series is offered in one package, the 32GB (2x16GB) kit.

The retail package is simple and you have to tear it in order to move both modules. The included black matt heat origami style spreader does look very nice and has low height for maximum CPU cooler compatibility. There is no RGB installed so users with a totally black look will love them. The kit includes two XMP/EXPO profiles, either at 5600 CL36 or 6000 CL36, of course, most users will use the 6000 CL35 right out of the box. The system was very stable and we didn't notice any issues during our benchmarking process. The kit needs 1.25V for the 5600MHz and 1.35V for the 6000MHz profile. It seems Crucial gave their maximum/best efforts with the Micron memory modules and we didn't find any room for further improvements, either very lowering CL at 6000MHz or trying to increase frequencies, all with stock (1.35V) voltages. So no overclocking abilities here, hence the OC title for this product.

The retail price of the Crucial Pro DDR5-5600 32GB Memory kit is around $164.99, making it much higher priced than the "PRO" version DDR5-5600 CL48 ($107.99 from $149.99) which makes it difficult to recommend this product, especially since other competitors already offer slight tighter timings (CL30) and room for further performance improvements with lower timings. Overall this product aims at enthusiast users, who need the legendary Crucial warranty (lifetime) and want a plug & play 6000MHz memory kit either for an Intel/AMD system, which the competition doesn't offer much for now.