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KINGSTON HYPERX FURY 16GB DDR4-2400 MEMORY
As we mentioned earlier, we swapped out a whopping 64GB of memory in place of 16GB. Why would we do this, well one saying comes to mind: our need for speed. As corny as it sounds, that was exactly our goal – to achieve greater memory speeds in place of capacity. Will the difference be earth-shattering, well you will see in our performance testing section of this article, and if you take the time to research, you will see that the RAM Speed vs. Capacity is a greatly debated topic.
What are the two options good for? To put it very simply, focusing your hard earned dollars on memory speed will attribute to a increase in single app performance (i.e., gaming). This increase may be negligible or it may be substantial depending on the extent of your upgrade. On the flip side, the choice to go with higher capacities are for those who utilize multiple apps at a single time or memory intensive apps (i.e., Photoshop). Either way, the choice is up to you and varies depending on your computing habits.
Enough of that, let’s dig into our newest member of our Z170 Test Bench, Kingston’s HyperX Fury 16GB DDR-2400 memory.
Starting from the outside and working our way in, the memory comes in Kingston’s standard packaging, clear plastic held together with a wide red belt. The front of this band gives you a snapshot of the memory specifications.
The back of the packaging and band don’t give you much of anything, as the band disappears and the clear plastic shows the blank side of the memory modules.
The front of the memory modules are in tune with Kingston’s signature look. Each PCB is encased with a black metal heatsink, proudly displaying the HyperX Fury name.
As we said before, the back of the heatsink doesn’t give us much, except a single label that gives us the part number and serial number.
FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS
The HyperX Fury DDR4 memory is available in capacities ranging to include 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB kits. They are also available in speeds of 2133MHz, 2400MHz and 2666MHz.
Looking at the latency, you can expect to open the HyperX Fury memory with CAS latency of between CL14–CL15. Kingston also reports that this line of DDR4 memory is also equipped for low power consumption reaching only 1.2V. Stay tuned for more in our performance testing.
Kingston also notes specifically that this memory line is optimized for Intel’s X99 chipset. As we have discussed previously, once the 100 series motherboards were rolled out there was much to be accomplished by the way of ensuring that prior XMP 2.0 profiles were stable for 100 series motherboards. Thanks to Intel and motherboard manufacturers, much of this has been remedied by BIOS updates.
Kingston doesn’t list the MSRP of the HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4-2400 memory on their website, but a quick Amazon search shows us that you can pick up this kit for $86.54.