Closer Look

Similar to other four-module versions of the beast, the 2400C11 are served in a cardboard box that contains a pair of plastic trays holding two modules each.



What comes to the module styling, matte black is never a bad color to go with even though the overall appearance is slightly spoiled by leaving the PCB color at standard green. Kingston promise to have fixed this issue in the upcoming revisions of the Beast.



The mass and surface area of aluminium plates used by Kingston on the Beast as heatspreaders is nowhere near the paramater values of those being put on T1 series for ages. The grand plan behind such change, apparently, is to reduce the production costs, which is not the type of strategy one would like to notice being executed on the flagship models.




With the thermal tape out of the way, we see that our modules are based upon 4Gbit memory chips manufactured by Hynix, commonly referred to as MFR. Same chips have been in use on all three Kingston Beast models we have tested previously.



The SPD contains some basic information on the maker, model and the production date of the modules. It is also flashed with four JEDEC profiles designed to make things out of the box. Next to the XMP containing rated speed and timings, there is also an XMP with lower frequency, which might be helpful for those, whose platforms cannot run these Beast at full speed.

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Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Closer Look

Page 3 - Photo Gallery

Page 4 - Results

Page 5 - Conclusion