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Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 Overclocking Memory Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2010-06-15
so today I'll be doing an unboxing of the Kingston HyperX blue memory now I'm going to zoom in and see if you notice anything strange about the name of this memory well it's the fact that all of their memory is blue so this is just more blue memory you would think but no I actually have the press release up on my screen and depending just how HD my HD is you might be able to read it but Kingston HyperX blue memory modules have a new look so I'll show you the new look once we get the Box open they run it standard J deck speeds and timings but the big benefit is that they have lots of overclocking Headroom for enthusiasts so it's kind of like what AMD is doing with their black edition chips where they're purposely running it at a conservative setting in order to give you more room to overclock them to really find the limits in them so let's get the blue 4 gig can't open here this is a dual channel kit and it's available in 6,400 ddr2 1333 ddr3 as well as 1600 ddr3 so I'm gonna go ahead and take this out so it looks a little bit different from their standard heat spreader first of all you've got more of the chrome accents so right here it says ddr3 now we're used to not say anything and you still have your shiny pink sticker which I am a big fan of I'll turn it around so this is a 240 pin standard dual sided memory module you can see on this side you know it's funny because I was looking at it in the box and I was like oh well how's the HyperX blue it doesn't say blue anywhere on it it doesn't say blue on the package it doesn't say blue on the RAM but now I found it it says HyperX blue on the back so that's just silkscreen down there and then you've got another ddr3 here so the actual heat spreader is just plain blue in the background you've got your chrome bar on the outside ddr3 just like that and then they actually are just putting stickers and silkscreen on to get the two different sides so that's a pretty good cost saving measure if you ask me so like I said two modules these are all about the overclocking Headroom so what I'm gonna be doing in the next little bit is I did a big core I far rather core i7 eight 5k so Intel's new unlocked chip I did a big overclocking guide on that and the whole point of that guide was now we can overclock the CPUs as far as we want without actually stressing the RAM so I'm gonna grab that same test platform and I'm gonna take a bit of a different approach now I'm gonna see how far we can stress the ram without stressing the CPU since I have both up and down multiplier adjustments as well as being able to play around with the turbo mode so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston 4 gig ddr3 hyper X blue Ram
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