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Kingston RAM still good?

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Jpaul

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Dec 18, 2012
i got a good deal here, on Kingston HyperX 2000 Ghz

but surprisingly people only talk about Samsung/Corsair/Gskill RAM these days in forum, are Kingston ram no longer good?
 
Like some said RAM is RAM. More depends from used IC than a brand.
Kingston is good RAM manufacturer but all are talking more about G.Skill or Corsair because these brands make mainly enthusiast series. Kingston sells much more memory in general but most are cheaper kits like value series.

Other thing is that Kingston set looser timings for the same clocked kits as competition so for example you can get HyperX 2133 11-12-11 while Geil, Patriot or G.Skill will set 9-11-10 or 10-11-11 on the same IC.
Kingston is not binning IC as good as some other brands. They just put better and worse chips to the same series so you never know if your new memory will overclock high or low. Example can be 2400/2600 Predator series when some users report 100-200MHz OC and others can barely set XMP settings. Well, exactly the same makes Patriot ;).
 
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Kingston improved quite a bit after DDR2 became popular, and I think since then they've been buying all their DRAM as whole wafers they then slice & dice themselves and screen it all with expensive machines (in 1999, they said they didn't test everything that way).
 
Like Woomack said, Corsair and G.Skill market specifically to enthusiasts, and usually have better binning. Considering RAM prices are usually identical between brands (for the same size and speed), there's no reason to go with something other than Corsair or G.Skill.
 
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