Archive for the ‘Memory’ Category
GeIL DDR3 Memory Round-up | Enhance Corsa | Evo Corsa
Introduction Lately you haven’t seen many memory reviews coming from yours truly, but this is about to change! GeIL has sent in a whole package of their latest gamer RAM and this is the first part of the round-up. We’ll ...
Patriot G2 PC3-12800 1600MHz
Introduction Today we’re looking at some DDR3 memory from Patriot. An offering from their Gamer series, the G2 enhanced latency kit is aimed towards gamers seeking the best performance at the best price. Let’s take a closer look and find ...
Kingston HyperX T1 DDR3-2133 CL9
Introduction The supply of RAM reviews continues! Today Kingston wants us to show off their high-end HyperX T1-series to the public. We are looking at the Kingston HyperX T1 DDR3-2133 CL9 2x2GB kit which fits a budget enthusiast role but ...
Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1866
Lately we've been producing quite a few RAM reviews. Today it's time for another kit, the Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1866 CL9 to take the challenge. Will it perform on a decent price-performance ratio? Should you buy it? Let's find out!
Mach Xtreme Armor 2133 CL9
Once again I present to you good sirs a memory review. This time I'm looking at a product from a Mach Xtreme Technology, a fresh brand offering a wide range of memory module products, including RAM, flash drives and SSDs. MX-Tech profiles itself with artistic designed products. Today we're taking a look at their Armor-series RAM, rated at 2133MHz CL9. I'll give it a quick comparison to a recent RAM review and of course the product will be rated for its price vs performance quality.
Crucial Ballistix 1600MHZ Mod
Crucial are a big name in the memory industry and in particular, their high performance Ballistix kits. The latest addition to this line of DDR3 performance Random Access Memory comes in the form of the BL2KIT25664FN1608 4GB kit rated at 1600MHz. However, Crucial has added temperature sensing capabilities to the DIMMs with an in-built sensor integrated into the SPD chip reporting information back to the Memory Overview Display (MOD) software. Whilst CPUs are very much geared up to provide accurate temperature data, it’s rarely seen with memory kits. Crucial has seized upon this gap in the market with MOD offering a USP. Let’s check it out…
Geil Ultra 2000MHZ
There is a large market for memory modules. Ranging from standard value ones to high speed, low latency overclocking modules for extreme benchmarkers looking to break world records. Today I've gotten my hands on some overclocker oriented RAM, the GeIL Ultra Plus DDR3-2000 CL9. This kit should offer speeds that aren't achievable by normal motherboards on stock settings. Let's see if GeIL can live up their promise for decent overclocking memory.
Mushkin Blackline PC3-12800
There are many companies in the hardware world that focus on the gaming market. They cover their products in lightning, fire or grungey images in an attempt to appeal to the quick flash, short attention span, high energy gamers. However, this isn't the only option for these firms, another avenue often ventured down is the enthusiast route. Mushkin tend to aim their products at this audience, and the kit we're looking at today is no different. Part of the Blackline family these DIMMs are rated at 1600MHZ with some reasonably tight timings. Let's check it out.
Kingston HyperX 1866Mhz
The introduction of Intel's i7 platform coincided largely with the release of DDR3 memory bringing with it the prospect of triple channel setups. As a result, many memory kits have been produced specifically for the X58 motherboard generally of the order of 6GB (3 x 2GB). Typically, 1066MHz or 1333MHz DRAM has been used by the average users with higher frequencies seemingly classed as more “enthusiast” memory. However, with the price of DDR3 memory dropping, the lure of higher frequencies for use in combination with the i7 920 or other i7 CPUs is becoming a little greater. This is magnified by the ability to push the frequencies to 1866MHz or 2000MHz by simply changing the divider allowing for quick and easy overclocking which, when combined with a clock of 3.8-4.0GHz (easily achievable on the i7 920), gives a very significant performance boost. Kingston's HyperX range has often been considered as the company's headline memory act with its distinctive, flashy heat spreaders. This particular kit, KHX1866C9D3T1K3/6GX, is made up of three 2GB sticks each running at a stock speed of 1866MHz with CL9 timings. Let’s take a closer look.
Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC3-10600
Crucial have always been one of the more popular high-end memory manufacturers, with their Crucial Ballistix kits being an overclockers favourite. However, Crucial do another kit, known as the Ballistix Tracer sporting black heatspreaders and fancy LED lighting. Let's see if they're as good as we hope.
