Apacer has done an excellent job with the design of the Apacer NOX RGB. The build quality and packaging are excellent. The heat spreader is simple, effective, and attractive, and the black powder coat looks great against the white of the RGB LED diffuser. Speaking of RGB LEDs, the Apacer NOX RGB has one of the best implementations I have seen yet. Apacer didn't do anything particularly unique here, but instead chose to focus on the basics: good diffusion, good overall brightness, good stock effects, and good software support. The Apacer NOX RGB is compatible with the lighting software from all four major motherboard vendors. The end product is greater than the sum of its parts, and the NOX RGB has all the hallmarks of a premium memory kit.

Looks aside, the Apacer NOX RGB 3200 MHz performed well, exactly as expected for a kit with these specifications. However, the Apacer NOX RGB proved to have little in the way of overclocking headroom, reaching just 3400 MHz stable with my ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 7 and Intel Core i9-9900K combo. Now, I can only speak to the testing I have done here, and it would be unfair to give any single memory kit the special treatment of testing with multiple setups to see what works best. With that in mind, different boards like different memory kits, and while the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 7 has given me no reason to doubt its abilities, I have not put it through its paces with very many dual-rank memory kits. Recent work with the Ryzen platform has been a good reminder of just how much the memory controller on your CPU can affect your overclocking results. With all that said, the results I achieved with the Apacer NOX RGB must stand as they are, and based on my experience, I would not recommend this kit for overclocking.

Finally, we come to the price. The Apacer NOX RGB comes in at US$240, which is almost US$100 more than similar kits of the same specifications. I know I am comparing market price to MSRP, and I hope Apacer can bring the price in line with similar kits. I really liked the Apacer NOX RGB and want to recommend it for those looking for some good 16 GB RGB DDR4 sticks, but I can't unless its price drops in line with other kits on the market.