Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16GB

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PRICE £69 (£83 inc VAT) from ebuyer.com

Kingston has designed the Fury kit for gaming and high-performance computing, and it looks the part: the heatspreaders are made from glossy metal topped with RGB LED lighting.

The lighting is smooth and versatile, and a Windows app alters the colours and effects. The HyperX DIMMs are shorter than the Corsair units, so they’re more accommodating in a wider range of PCs.

Under the hood, the two 8GB HyperX DIMMs run at a rapid 3,200MHz and their timings are better, on paper, than the pricier Corsair memory. In benchmarks, though, the HyperX is inconsistent. Its Tomb Raider minimum and average frame rates of 108fps and 145fps are sluggish, especially when compared to the Corsair.

In our real-world benchmarks, its image-editing score of 179 was the poorest, but its video, multitasking and overall results were the best of the 16GB kits on test. It was quick in Cinebench’s singlecore benchmark, but slow in Geekbench’s.

The 3,200MHz speed and decent timings translated to good theoretical results – it was the best 16GB kit for memory and cache bandwidth, and its 25.3ns latency figure is impressive. That doesn’t translate to real-world performance, though. If you’re a gamer, Corsair’s RGB-lit product is better. If not, Corsair’s cheaper LPX kit is faster and more consistent.

2 x 8GB DIMMs 3,200MHz DDR4 dual/ quad-channel configuration 16-18-18 timings 1.35V voltage part number: HX432C16FB3K2/16