Kingston Plug and Play High-Performance Memory Made Official

DRAM memory might again start to get more expensive now that supply is expected to become strained, but prices are still very low, meaning that Kingston's newest memory products chose a fairly opportune moment to show up, as far as end-users go anyway.

The new product series that Kingston prepared is one that goes by the name of HyperX Plug and Play.

This, essentially, is a collection of memory kits that utilize modules capable of working at frequencies of either 1,600 MHz or 1,866 MHz.

Overall, the series contains offerings for desktops powered by the latest generation of Intel Core i5 or Core i7 central processing units.

There are six kits in total, all of them composed of two kits, meaning that modules of 2 GB and 4 GB are used (the kits have 4 GB or 8 GB capacity). There are two DIMM kits, while the other four come in the SODIMM form factor.

"The HyperX engineering team has been thoroughly innovative in designing a memory module that automatically raises performance with no overclocking steps required," said Mark Tekunoff, senior technology manager, Kingston.

"By using JEDEC-compliant settings to create performance timings, enthusiasts can max out native frequencies on current Sandy Bridge systems and older DDR3 machines."

All newcomers run on 1.5V and have CL9-9-9 (1,600 MHz) or CL11-11-11 (1,866 MHz) latencies.

Needless to say, as with all RAM (random access memory), all it takes is for one to place the products inside the DDR3 slots and the PC will take it from there, no BIOS modification required.

Kingston's authorized distributors, resellers, e-tailers and retailers should already have them all listed, for between $67 and $163.

All that remains is to wait and see how many enthusiasts take Kingston up on its offer and use one of the HyperX Plug and Play in their gaming and overclocking activities.