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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so we're hanging out checking out what HyperX is showing off here at the show and I've got three things right in front of me first of all we've got their savage ddr3 memory so the kit that happens to be in here right now is the 16 gig kit of 24 hundred megahertz memory honestly not a lot has changed ddr3 isn't exactly cutting-edge anymore but they've got a nice new ID on it that's gonna look great on you know an rog board and actually this system overall looks freaking fantastic it's an allele EPC o6s and I'm going to have to get one of these for a review or something because this looks like one wicked gaming system of course of course it looks mostly wicked because of all the cool HyperX stuff inside so they've actually got their new HyperX savage SSD this is using a FISA nestin controller it's available in 240 480 and 960 gig capacities and in terms of performance this one's it's kind of funny because you know it's like yeah it's a new controller but yeah it still stay to 3 because we don't really have anything faster than that so we're looking at around 560 megabytes per second reads around 520 or 5 40 megabytes per second writes depending on where things land at the end of the day and in terms of what that means in the real world well right over here it's it's kind of like awesome beautiful HyperX industrial design meets sort of kingston marketing here's ours here's all the other set of 3 SSDs basically you know ours is good because it's you know backed by Kingston it's good quality and all that stuff and now in incompressible scenarios where so say for example on a sand forest Drive it might perform really well sometimes and not as well other times we are gonna be definitely competitive with everything else on the market and we look great doing it so that's about all there is to say about it this is a little bit more on the interesting side this is the new HyperX predator this is an MDOT 2 SSD it's got four PCI Express gen 2 lanes and this has none of that mundane SATA 3 bottleneck stuff going on if the read speeds on this one is 1.4 gigabytes per second and writes is one gigabyte per second it's available in the same so that's 240 480 and 960 gig and you can actually install it a number of different ways in fact in the system behind me they've got it installed two different ways so it's installed directly in an m dot 2 slot on the Maximus 7 gene motherboard right here and then it's also available with a PCI Express riser card and so you can just install it in any PCI Express slot and your motherboard assuming you don't have an MDOT 2 slot and this is just a nice touch there actually I'm not sure if this is the final PCB design I heard there's one that's gonna have like dick buts on the back or something like that or know about there's there's discussion about maybe dressing it up a little bit but little things like making the PCB black I've seen other high performance great for gaming you know PCI Express SSD riser card slits like green PCB is like do you guys even look at gaming systems so at least I'll say this the HyperX team is looking at what gaming systems are supposed to look like and making sure the product performs well and looks good inside speaking of stuff that performs well huge shout out to our primary sponsor for the show yeah I got to throw in that primary just for you guys because they they jumped on board earlier than you phantom blast these guys make great screen protectors they're made of Gorilla Glass so they look fantastic on your phone they feel great to your finger and they're extremely scratch resistant they're available at stores antim glass that's linked in the video description and also a shout-out to HyperX they are sponsoring us here at the show you guys are gonna want to check out their YouTube channels youtube.com slash HyperX we've got it linked in the video description huge thanks to those guys for allowing us to be here and as you see just because someone sponsored us to be at the show that doesn't prevent us from having a little bit of fun at their expense when we're covering their products so I don't know where I was going with that mostly I was just making fun of you guys don't forget to click that subscribe button so you don't miss any of our CES coverage here at CES 2015