Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Red (HX318C10FRK2/8)

I got this ram a couple days early (when I purchased the first 2x4 set), much to my surprise. I plugged it into my respective motherboard slots and everything worked out of the box. Clocked to 1866 mhz automatically, a quality shared among other reviewers I read before buying them, so I pretty much expected that. Since the sale was still going on, and I had no issues for about two weeks, I decided to get another 2X4 set for 16 GB total (four slots on the mother board). This means my RAM is only dual channel, but THAT'S OKAY. You don't HAVE to get quad channel RAM for four slots. Also, I was toying around with my i5 processor's base clock, increasing it to a 105.0 mhz base clock. This increased the clock of the RAM as well. Although I didn't want the RAM at that level, I thought it was pretty cool that the RAM OCed right along with the processor without a hitch. I clocked the RAM back down to 1866 mhz dual channel. I have nothing to report that's negative about this product, besides maybe Kingston's packaging (NOT Amazons shipping box) having no protection and just a small plastic casing. It could possibly spell disaster if delivered in junky packaging (not something Amazon would do, but maybe a lesser company...)

It's RAM, right? Right, but there are still a few things that can be said about this set. It has a very nice appearance with the shade of blue that the heat spreaders are, and it goes very well with my motherboard's color scheme (MSI PC Mate). Speaking of the heat spreaders, they don't appear to be oversized so hopefully I am able to install an aftermarket cooler without any issues involving clearances. After installation, it was very easy to go into my BIOS and check on their speed and voltage. I have it set for 1866MHz with no performance issues. I do plan on purchasing another set soon and it will be this brand. Definitely recommend it for those looking for quality RAM from a trusted brand.

First things first. The shipping (because the shipping is obviously a critical part of the Amazon experience). I ordered this from antonline because their feedback seemed so overwhelmingly positive. I didn't really expect the shipping to be all that fast (especially for free shipping) and it wasn't. It took several days. Which is not terrible (in the context of the fact that Amazon orders seem to be taking longer and longer these days). The problem was the tracking. It was fairly accurate in when it said it was going to be here but it was also pretty vague. For a few days, it just said "Shipped" and "In transit" or something like that. I had no clue where it shipped from or where on earth it was. I could only use the vague estimate of "It'll probably be there sometime between these five days" to try and know when to be ready for it. And I mean, let's be honest here. This isn't a pack of socks. This is a delicate computer part. It's not terribly expensive but it's 40 bucks. It's not the kind of thing you want to play around with. Well, OK. So, at the end, it took about 4 days and Amazon's tracking info didn't really give me any specific details of exactly where it was until the very last day when it was out for delivery. If I hadn't been home that day, I would have obviously missed the delivery. SO......the product itself? Seems fine. I'm not super knowledgeable about RAM or specs or any of that. But here is my basic system (for reference). Motherboard - Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X (With the latest F11 BIOS) APU - AMD A10 7860K Samsung 850 Evo SSD Seasonic 550 watt Gold PSU The memory I was replacing was 6 gigs of generic Kingston 1600 RAM that came with a system I bought years ago. Much was made of the fact that you should just be able to pop this HyperX Fury in and have your BIOS change all the settings for you. Which is true (kinda). It did indeed show up as 1866 RAM as soon as I rebooted. However, I wasn't all that sure I was getting better performance. In fact, something about the system seemed a bit laggy. I thought this was probably just my imagination but I started looking around in the BIOS. I noticed the Northbridge frequency was set at 1600. I started doing some benchmarks just to see if I could see any performance drop and I did notice that it said the RAM was slower than it should be. I debated whether or not to risk raising the northbridge frequency as I had heard somewhere that it should be at least equal to your RAM speed. I don't know where I read that and couldn't find it again when I was looking for it. But I finally tried it and the benchmark scores definitely went up for the RAM. So I can only assume that you will not get the advertised speed out of this RAM if your northbridge frequency remains at 1600 (Someone please comment on this and let me know if I'm right or wrong here). Of course this site I was using for benchmarks was comparing my scores to those everyone else was getting with the same RAM. It is likely most of those people were overclocking their systems to the max. Still, the RAM scores I was getting right out of the gate were well below what seemed normal and they jumped considerably when I changed the northbridge to 1900. I even tried reloading the optimized defaults for my motherboard so the BIOS would automatically choose the settings for the APU and RAM. The northbridge frequency auto set itself to 1600 on this MB. So I don't really know if this is correct to change this setting. Don't take my word for it because I don't know anything, really. Just that I got significantly better scores when I changed the freauency. I did not change the frequency for the RAM, as I wanted to see if the northbridge setting seemed to be the bottleneck and it appears to be.

The RAM has a sleek design and fast for the price they ask. When it comes down to RAM usage, Sony Vegas is what mostly is running on my computer (for video and music editing) and it gets the job when it comes down to rendering videos, so here is my small review on how it renders. Compared to my laptop, the PC gets the job done, it's fast. My laptop could render a exactly 15 minute video in 1 - 2 hours depending (if it wants to work that hard that day). With my newly built PC, I can render a exactly 15 minute video again, but it can finish rendering in 17 minutes with the CPU/RAM. While editing within Sony Vegas the frames do not drop while editing, which is good because you don't want bad playback so you can have fluid editing. I could get render times a bit more down if I overclocked my CPU (or get better hardware), but I didn't. I can recommend this to anyone, even non gamers that just want more multi-tasking power in their computer. Parts I used in this review: - GPU: ' EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB FTW GAMING, Silent Cooling Graphics Card 02G-P4-2958-KR ' - Motherboard: ' ASUS LGA1151 DDR3 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 B150 MicroATX Motherboards B150M-A D3 ' - CPU: ' Intel Boxed Core I5-6600 FC-LGA14C 3.30 Ghz 6 M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I56600 ' Things to know: - The box includes the RAM, a small sticker and a manual. - The CPU was not overclocked during the render testing times.

I have been using Kingston ram on my system builds since the 90’s. My system is 5 years old and only had 8gb of Ram. Purchased another 8gb and to my surprise just by doubling my ram to 16 it made quite a difference when running games. Since these are “fury” there was no need to configure anything in my bios. Installed them and everything booted up fine, system recognized them and I am happy. Till my next major overhaul I will always stick with Kingston hyper x.

All around perfect ram. 8gb should be fine for the next few years, but I am definitely getting another set of these when I need to upgrade. I am using the s340 white case and this looks AMAZINGLY clean in it. I think that is one of my favorite things about this ram, it doesn't look "tactical" or junky, but rather just clean. Really, if you are going for that case get this ram. I am not too sure about the speed of the ram, but from what I've read, its compares with most other ram around this common price (pretty fast). I have had no issues with the ram, plug in play too. Overall, I really recommend this ram.

So as my first PC build I was a little worried about what kind of RAM I should get and because it was cheap I was skeptical about buying this RAM pack. I installed them and my BIOS automatically recognized the MHz and how much memory there was suppose to be. I was so happy that I got a great quality product for so little in price for my budget. It handles everything really well and it's super fast. I will definitely be buying another pack when I upgrade my RAM storage.

Excellent memory. At this point, just about all memory is fast enough, so it's about finding stuff that is from a reputable manufacture, meets your performance/fitment requirements, and looks good. This Kingston HyperX is great. The pricing is now about on par with some of the cheaper memory out there, and performs with some of the best. I have my old i7 920 running at 3.9Ghz with this stuff. If you need DDR3 memory, whether you're just looking to replace some failed junk, looking to upgrade, or starting fresh, no matter what your intent behind the machine, I recommend this memory.