


The HyperX Blu Memory Family Features Sleek Design, Small Height, and Serious Performance
Gor for a bold step out of the ordinary and into serious stability and reliability! The Kingston HyperX Blu Memory offers a great blend of performance, quality and style for entry-level gaming users or DIY professionals without a hit to your wallet. Its streamlined clipless design and heatspreaders deliver seamless thermal performance for high-bandwidth games and high-speed applications. What's more, it's blue, so it looks really cool in your rig.
Pros: + Kingston has been around for ever and they stand behind their products + Cool looking, low profile heat spreaders whose color matches so many of the motherboards today + Works like a champ at the rated speeds
Cons: - Lacks XMP profile so you must manually set speed and voltages to get the rated DDR3 1600
Overall Review: OK people, seriously, read the manual! Two easy clicks from the Newegg site and I'm reading the Kingston Memory Module Specifications .pdf which clearly states: "This module has been tested to run at DDR3-1600 at a low latency timing of 9-9-9-27 at 1.65V. The SPD is programmed to JEDEC standard latency DDR3-1333 timing of 9-9-9." Just go into the BIOS memory settings of your motherboard to set both the timings and voltages to get 1600. If left on Auto settings you'll be running at 1333 and 1.5v. Incidentally this is a JDEC issue and not a Kingston issue which is why XMP modules were introduced. Even still, you'd need to enable the XMP to get 1600 speeds so even that's not automatic.