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Aaaand the kicker is:

One of the orange LED's was faulty so I contacted crucial for RMA.

Unfortunately they no longer make the 2GB modules... So they apologised, and exchanged them for 2x 4GB modules!

Cannot believe my luck! Nice one Crucial!

8GB for just over £33... cracking deal if I do say so myself.

Just got these delivered (3 days early! yay for amazon!) - I paid £33.05 for the 4GB set - Very good value!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006Z1RFM4/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

First impressions:

The ram was well packaged in an easy to open package, no scissors required to open.
It feels very premium, the heat spreaders go well with my motherboard and other components in my case.

Fitting:

Although it looks low profile I had an issue installing in the slot closest to my Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro CPU cooler. It would probably fit at a push but i didn't want to risk the spreaders coming off as I had read that this was possible in an amazon review.
In the other slots it fitted fine, with a small amount of force.

Operation:

At default the modules run at 1300mhz. I enabled the XMP profile in my bios to get them to 1600mhz they are advertised at. I further pushed them to 1866mhz by tweaking the multiplier slightly still using the XMP profile and they run very nicely at this speed with 10-10-10-28 timings. Could probably tighten these a bit but im not very good with ram timing overclocking so will probably leave it at that.

Performance:

Compared to the Kingston HyperX Genesis and also Corsair Vengeance DDR3 I had been using in this board they are on par with a slightly lower latency.

Appearance:

I love the LED's. The tracer series is the only ram that has activity LED's on them. You can see what they do in this video (Might want to turn the volume down if you do not like hard dance music):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4NjWsFR_8E[/youtube]

There are 4 patterns for the lights and you can also pick the colour too. My set is blue and orange LED's but they are also available with red and green LED's too.

The heat spreaders are gunmetal grey with a camouflage look to them.

Overall I am very happy with this ram. It seems stable and my computer has not had one BSOD or crash since installing it.
I would recommend to anyone who has a side panel on their case and wants something to make it unique!

Wish I had that upload, Virgin fiber here and it's 60mbit down with only 3 up. You got infinity?

Wow I totally missed that, I swear that page changes everytime I look at it.

Decided to solve the issue completely by buying some crucial ram. Ballistix tactical tracers to be precise :D

Borrowing 8gb of corsair vengeance until they get here. Wow this stuff is fast!

Thanks guys for the welcome!

Finding the MX5 to be my weapon of choice at the moment as I like to have the RPG or similar to tackle vehicles when they come along too.

My stats are improving slowly lol.

Would join TS3 soulfly but I dont have a mic. The game thinks I do because of the way I have audio sent to my HDMI device I think. You wouldn't want a devonshire lad confusing everyone anyway lol.

http://media.kingston.com/pdfs/HyperX_Genesis_EN.pdf

Says 1.5v here, where did you see 1.7v+?

Just thought I would pop in and introduce myself. Only just started to play BF4 as ive only just built a PC that can play it lol.

Used to play BF2 (Username -=FD=-) a lot and host a server on it too. Im a bit of a noob in BF4, seems to be so much harder than BF2 was unless its just me thats gotten worse. Im sure I will improve with time. Already seem to be getting slightly better but I think its down to the keyboard and mouse that I just got given, my wireless one was no good for gaming.

Looking forward to playing on your server. It was great earlier tonight!

Hey guys, great server btw! ;)

I built a new pc last week with fx6300,7770 super OC, 4GB Kingston Genesis 1600 ram in a Gigabyte 970a-ds3p motherboard.

The ram does not seem to work as it should, have tried setting it to XMP profile which is 9-9-9-24 @ 1600mhz but it benches about half as fast as it should be in passmark.

Anyone of you know if this ram is compatible with AMD chipset or not? I looked on their site and it only mentions Intel in the blurb about this particular module set. It runs at 1.5v normally so should work ok. But the XMP profile is set to 1.65 volts which im guessing is intel standard (never had an intel build).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can still return it to amazon if I have to.

EDIT: Just found an update for my bios on gigabytes website. Version F2f. The only notes are that it is supposed to fix memory compatibility. It makes it worse! :p

Some numbers:
Read uncached = 6518 MB/s - Write = 4917 MB/s --- Bios F1 with XMP enabled
Read uncached = 6252 MB/s - Write = 4650 MB/s --- Bios F2f with XMP enabled

Should be like this:
Read uncached = 13576 MB/s - Write 8437 MB/s --- From passmark baseline for these modules.

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