Closer Look

Traditionally for Kingston, memory is packed in a black plastic container and is not supplied with any additional accessories.



Even though blue has recently been out of fashion amongst motherboard and case makers, one can't really penalise Kingston for using the heatsink color scheme that has been their trademark for over a decade.
However, the standard green PCB color does deserve a little bash. Not only is it even harder to find a match for than blue, but it is also a sign of unfulfilled promise by Kingston to switch to black PCB for high-end products soon after summer 2013.



Plain design, relatively small surface area and black plastic covers might suggest that the heatspreaders on the Predator are rather useless, but thanks to their mass they were easily capable of cooling the modules even at high voltages with little surrounding airflow.




The heatsinks are held on the modules via a layer of thermal adhesive tape and are not too difficult to detach. Underneath, we find that only one side of each module is populated with Hynix chips of 4Gbit density commonly referred to as MFR, while the other side of the modules is blank.



The SPD module of our kit provides some basic information about the maker, model and the manufacturing date of the modules. It also features JEDEC profiles up to DDR3-1600 for out-of-the-box compatibility as well as a couple of XMP profiles that will get the memory to the rated speeds at a change of just one BIOS option.
What we found interesting, is that the second XMP profile features a tighter set of timings at DDR3-2666, which is the exact specification of Kingston’s previous flagship. Detailed settings of profiles can be seen below.

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Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Closer Look

Page 3 - Photo Gallery

Page 4 - Results

Page 5 - Conclusion