A-DATA XPG G Series 6GB DDR3-1600G Kit review

Sometime ago, Intel introduced their brand new architecture named ‘Nehalem’ or popularly known as Core i7. With the launch of this platform, came some new innovations, one of them being, triple channel memory.
Although DDR3 has been in the market for some time now, only dual channel kits were available till now but with the advent of Nehalem, it was obvious that we would soon see triple channel kits being launched specifically for it.

What we have here today is a triple channel DDR3 memory kit from A-Data.
Some of you may have heard about A-Data but some of you may not have because A-Data products haven’t been available in India widely. For those who don’t know, A-Data is a leading manufacturer of high quality computer memory, Solid state drives along with pen drives, memory cards etc, it ranks second in the world for DRAM Modules and fourth for Flash Disks

A-Data is a pretty large brand when it comes to memory products, something like what Asus or Gigabyte is for motherboards.

Today we would be looking at A-Data Triple channel DDR3 1600Mhz CL9 6GB XPG (Xtreme Performance Gear) kit. This particular kit is targeted more towards Gamers and power users but not hardcore overclockers. So basically, it offers, high speeds, lower power consumption and stability, yet not very expensive, which is what most of the users want.

Specifications

You can see from the specs that although the timings are not exactly on the tighter side, the speed is respectable at 1600MHz at a low voltage of 1.65V.

Overall the build quality is pretty impressive. Even the quality of heatspreaders is good but since they are glued to the module, we could not remove it to see what ICs have been used on these sticks.

Gaming benchmarks

Far Cry 2

As you can see from the graphs, there is steady increase in performance with tighter timings and higher speed. We have included the Crucial Value series kit which is rated at 1333 MHz CL9 so that it gives a rough idea as to how much of a gain is actually achieved with this A-Data kit compared to cheaper and slower memory kits.

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