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Kingston HyperX Quad Channel 16GB DDR3 Memory Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-11-14
this is something very very exciting and it goes with something that's also very exciting okay so right here this is my beautiful retail box yeah whatever Intel socket LGA 2011 CPU that's that's a huge CPU I mean here's the iPhone comparison look at that thing yeah that's right this thing has just the sheer logic calculating part of it is like you know third the size of an iPhone so there you go that is what will be powering your new CPU or your new computer if you are buying a new computer that is on the very high-end range it's a six core CPU and this is the RAM that goes with it because that CPU that large CPU features a quad channel memory interface so Kingston was kind enough to send me a 16 gigabyte that is 4 by 4 gig ddr3 1600 megahertz cl9 quad channel HyperX memory kit so these are all Bend to run together in perfect harmony on intel's new platform so this is HyperX genesis got a very beautiful heat spreader on it let's just go ahead and flip that over and what I'm very very excited about is the fact that not only will intel's new platform support quad channel memory it'll support get this 8 dims on a desktop platform so you'll be able to take two 16 gig kits like this and run them together for 32 gigs of ram on a desktop platform with inexpensive 4 gig dims I know a crazy um so anyway I think that's pretty much it I think this is actually the first time I've looked at HyperX Genesis memory so I'd like my cameraman to just come in here and have a close look at that and you could do something like pan shots yeah there you go so we've got our little kingston guy here you got our hyper X logo is it shining is it shining for the camera oh good yes that's good so then on the other side we've got some more shining got Rex again very nice stuff so big thanks to Kingston for making my sandy bridge-e same platform possible and I'm looking forward to bringing you guys the results of my testing on that platform very very exciting stuff going on right here
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