Closer Look
The new Predator modules from
Kingston are being shipped in a cardboard box, where they're lying on soft foam.
Heatspeaders of Predator are finished in a blend of black and silver, which is
likely to fit with quite a few motherboard models out there. The heatspreaders
on these modules are very well made, since there are rather massive aluminum
profiles, which
stick to the memory chips via adhesive heatpads.
Taking the heatspeaders off Kingstons Predator series is not something we would recommend doing at home due to strong adhesive that requires
a very careful approach. Once the heatspreaders have been removed we see
that Kingston is putting MFR chips from SK Hynix on these modules. These are
basically the chips every DDR4 memory maker is using today.
The SPD of these modules contains some basic information such
as maker, part number and manufacturing date. It also features JEDEC profiles up
to DDR4-2400, as well as an XMP profile.