HyperX Predator PCIe SSD, New DDR4 RAM & More - CES 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom glass visit
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as well as hyperx so we're hanging out checking out what hyperx is showing off
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here at the show and I've got three things right in front of me first of all
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we've got their Savage DDR3 memory so the kit that happens to be in here right
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now is a 16 gig kit of 2400 MHz memory
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um honestly not a lot has changed DDR3
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isn't exactly Cutting Edge anymore but they've got a nice new ID on it that's
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going to look great on you know an Rog board and actually this system overall
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looks freaking fantastic it's an Alan Le
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p6s and I'm going to have to get one of
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these for review or something because this looks like one Wicked gaming system
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of course of course it looks mostly Wicked because of all the cool hyperx
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stuff inside so they've actually got their new hyperx Savage SSD this is
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using a fisen S10 controller it's available in 240 480 and 960 gig
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capacities and in terms of performance this this one's it's kind of funny
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because you know it's like yeah it's a new controller but yeah it's still SATA
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3 because we don't really have anything faster than that so we're looking at around 560 megabytes per second reads
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around 520 or 540 megabyte per second rights depending on where things land at
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the end of the day and uh in terms of what that means in the real world well
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right over here it's uh it's kind of like awesome beautiful hyperx industrial
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design meets uh sort of Kingston marketing here's ours here's all the
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other state of 3 ssds basically you know ours is good because it's you know
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backed by Kingston it's good quality and all that stuff and now in incompressible
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scenarios where so say for example on a sand Forest Drive it might perform
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really well sometimes and not as well other times we are going to be
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definitely competitive with everything else on the market and we look great
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doing it so that's about all there is to say about it this is a little bit more
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on the interesting side this is the new hyperx Predator this is an m.2 SSD it's
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got four PCI Express G two lanes and this has none of that mundane SATA 3
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bottleneck stuff going on the read speeds on this one is 1.4 gigabytes per
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second and rights is 1 Gigabyte per second it's available in the same
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capacities so that's 240 480 and 960 gig
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and you can actually install it a number of different ways in fact in the system
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behind me they've got it installed two different ways so it's installed
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directly in an m.2 slot on the Maximus 7 Gene motherboard right here and then
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it's also available with a PCI Express Riser card and so you can just install
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it in any PCI Express slot in your motherboard assuming you don't have an
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m.2 slot and this is just a nice touch they actually I'm not sure if this is
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the final PCB design I heard there's one that's going to have like dick butts on
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the back or something like that or no but there there's discussion about maybe
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dressing it up a little bit but little things like making the PCB black I've
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seen other high performance great for gaming you know PCR Express SSD Riser CS
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it's like green PCB it's like do you guys even look at gaming systems so at
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least I'll say this the hyperx team is looking at what gaming systems are
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supposed to look like and making sure the product performs well and looks good
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inside speaking of stuff that performs well huge shout out to our primary
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sponsor for the show yeah I got to throw in that primary just for you guys
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because they uh they jumped on board earlier than you Phantom glass these
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video description and also a shout out to hyperx they are sponsoring us here at
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the show you guys are going to want to check out their YouTube channel it's youtube.com/ hyperx we've got it linked
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in the video description huge thanks to those guys for allowing us to be here
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and as you see just because someone sponsored us to be at the show that
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doesn't prevent us from having a little bit of fun at their expense when we're covering their products so uh I don't
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know where I was going with that mostly I was just making fun of you guys don't
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