ADATA XPG Series RAM Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of a couple of different
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products from adata so these are both members of their xpg line and I wanted
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to treat this video not just as another RAM unboxing because let's face it I've
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done enough of those over the years it's RAM it goes in your motherboard more
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more better usually anyway the point of all
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of this is why would you want different
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types of memory so in front of me with
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the easy open packaging which I am still working on here got my easy open
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packaging there we go that was easy all right I have two very very different
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options that represent a lot of different uh different aspects of the
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memory purchasing process so right here I have some more basic low profile xpg
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modules these ones are a 16 gig kit so
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it's a 2x8 gig kit that means it's optimized for dual Channel operation on
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whether it's an Intel z77 or Z87
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platform or an AMD platform so dual Channel optimized number two is it's a
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high capacity kit so that's high density
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memory modules that usually means you're going to get well more capacity which is
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great for things like video editing or uh rendering particularly for like sort
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of light consumer or prummer grade stuff because this isn't like ECC registered
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or like workstation grade or anything like that so it's going to be useful for
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applications where you need lots of RAM but higher density modules tend not to
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be available at the same kinds of speeds as lower density modules so latency is
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usually a tradeoff so that's that that's that CL and then the series of timings
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after it is usually a trade-off with the frequency that it runs at so if this
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runs at 1866 cl10 you can usually assume
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that that's sort of equivalent in terms of performance to 1600 cl9 or something
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along those lines but it depends on whether the application likes more
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bandwidth or likes lower latency and that's something that you definitely
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want to shop for when you're looking at memory these modules are also low
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profile which can offer better compatibility with different coolers
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that can overhang the memory slots so there you go that's the summary of these
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xpg modules right here 1866 8 gig dims
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low profile and high density all right
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now let's move on to these xpg modules so these are more about the
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flashiness so we got black pcbs
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high-profile spreaders that in theory will offer slightly better heat
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dissipation but in practice it doesn't really make that much of a difference it
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does reduce compatibility with larger air coolers that overhang the memory
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slots from time to time although the heat sink manufacturers are working on
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making this less of an issue but of course if you're running water cooling
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For example then that won't be a problem and these ones right here run at very
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high frequency so these are 2.4 GHz memory modules at a cast latency of only
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11 so the timings are not that much looser than that 1866 kit making these
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pretty pricey huh pretty pricey memory modules now with all of that said per
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the performance difference between the lowest end memory and the highest end
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memory is not that much for some people
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and unless you're into the tuning and tweaking aspect you might not find it
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worthwhile to spend a ton of money on very expensive memory although we're
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going to have a follow-up video coming where we take this 2400 MHz memory run
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it at a bunch of different speeds particularly in gaming applications and
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find out exactly how much of a difference it makes because right now I can't quantify it but that'll be coming
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soon it definitely looks better especially if you color match with your
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motherboard in this case we've got an ASUS Z87 Deluxe that I think it happens
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to look particularly ravishing in and I
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think that pretty much covers it so the main things you're looking for guys are
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is it optimized for the right number of channels for your system what capacity
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do you need what speed you need it to run at and make sure you check those
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latency timings because the higher they are the more it might negate any benefit
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you're getting from the higher clock speed of your memory and it can be quite
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difficult for your CPU to run very high clock speed memory particularly on last
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generation Intel platform such as ivybridge or even on Haswell when you're
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