Kingston HyperX

[Profquast]

So with the recent fire in China and all that I decided I wanted to buy some ram in advance of the rest of the system I will be building somewhere in the next 3 months. The cheapest DDR3 2x4 8GB 1600mhz cl9 memory I could find was Kingston HyperX (not with a color suffix). Is this ram known to cause problems and is it compatible with a lot of mobo's?

[Samdb]

No, it's fine, RAM is RAM.

[ComputerNoob]

Kingston makes great ram

[Analog]

I had some problems with bad Kingston HyperX Blu RAM in the past, however I think that it was just bad luck.

[sthzje]

I have a Kingston HyperX RAM and so far I didn't notice any problems.

[whatthe_fuzz]

Kingston is amazing. i highly suggest it

[MichaelQ]

I've been using HyperX ram for a while and have had no problems at all with it.

[BYOGamingPC]

The Kingston Hyper X Blu 8 GB (2x4GB Modules) 1600MHz and also the Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3 1600 are great value priced RAM. Kingston and Crucial both make quality products.

[LogicalDrm]

I've used Kingston before (ValueRAM) without any problems. It migh perform slightly worse than some more expensive ones, but aestechtics cost more in ram.

[-rascal-]

If you are thinking of making a Intel build (either Ivy-bridge or Haswell), MAKE SURE to use RAM rated at 1.5V. If you get a 1.6V or 1.65V kit (like 50% of Kingston's memory kits are), you can fry / damage the Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) within the CPU. (This information was even included in Intel's CPU datasheets)

 

I know a few people who ran 4 sticks of 1.65V memory and that did permanently damaged to the IMC. From then on, they could only run 2 sticks of RAM in their system.

 

For AMD chips, it's a similar situation, but they are slightly more flexible...but still, 1.5V RAM is recommended.

 

 

EDIT:

Yep, for Haswell CPUs...page 18 and page 81 of the "Desktop 4th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor Family: Datasheet, Vol. 1"

Ivy-Bridge CPUs....page 12, page 23, page 65, page 86 of the "Desktop 3rd Gen Intel® Core™ Processor Family: Datasheet, Vol. 1"

[Mooshi]

My old Vista machine used Kingston ram and it was stable.

[Profquast]

okay, ordered them, should arrive tomorrow. Will try them in my present system, 4GB ram isn't cutting it with a lot of apps open.

[Leonard]

Kingston RAM is very good but make sure you cross reference with them for compatibility with your motherboard. You should also do the same for any other RAM vendor.

[mgsstar]

okay, ordered them, should arrive tomorrow. Will try them in my present system, 4GB ram isn't cutting it with a lot of apps open.

Kingston HyperX series usually advertise their XMP profile settings so if you wanted the advertised speeds you would have to enable the XMP profile.

[deadbc77]

4770k running with 16gb of Kingston Beast ram @ 2133 XMP profile. Also ran it with my 3770k. Awesome ram highly recommend it.