Article: Kingston® KVR533D2N4K2/1G Dual Channel Kit Value RAM (Affordable Overclocker's RAM?)
Many thanks to Kingston®, and Intel® for providing the processor.
I. Introduction
Kingston* is one of the leading and world reknowned memory manufacturer. While they have many OEM memory, they are also now a known within the Enthusiast community, specially their infamous HyperX memory. On top of this market segment, Kingston* is also manufacturing many retail memory for the end users, and targetted at the value segment. It is in this segment that this review will be focusing on, but don't get frustrated, in this review, overclockability will also be explored.
The Kingston® KVR533D2N4K2/1G Dual Channel Kit ValuRAM is a kit of two(2) with 64M x 64bit (512MB) DDR2 running on 533MHz with CL4 timing. The total kit capacity is 1GB (2x512MB) and the components on each module include eight(8) 64M x 8bit (16M x 8bit x 4 Bank) DDR2-533MHz SDRAM in FBGA packge, and requires 1.8v to operate properly.
II. Specification
Here's the full details of the memory, but before you missed it, I just want to emphasize the warranty: Lifetime!
- Timing
- Clock Cycle Time (tCK) CL=4 3.75ns (min.) / 8ns (max.)
- Row Cycle Time (tRC) 55ns (min.)
- Refresh to Active/Refresh Command Time (tRFC) 105ns
- Row Active Time (tRAS) 40ns (min.) / 70,000ns (max.)
- Single Power Supply of +1.8V (+/- .1V)
- Power (IDD0) 1.440 W (operating)
- UL Rating 94 V - 0
- Type
- Unbuffered
- Non ECC
- Speed Grade
- Speed: 533MHz
- Memory Chip Classification: DDR2-533
- Module Chip Classification: PC2-4200
- Module Bandwidth: 4.3GB/sec
- Dual Channel DDR2 System Bandwidth: 8.6GB/sec
- Memory Chip packaging: FBGA
- Warranty
- Lifetime
Time to give it a closer look...
