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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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We have seen our fair share of USB flash drives come through our lab and progressively with each one, they get faster, smaller and hold more data. Its up to companies like Kingston to put out products that give us choices when we are in the market for a flash drive. Whether you are a network administrator that needs to conduct system maintenance or a high school student who wants to carry around files to share with friends, everyone has a need for portable storage.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
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Kingston's 20 year history is packed with numerous awards from the likes of Fortune, Inc, and Forbes magazines, and for the last four years, they were ranked the #1 memory module manufacturer for the third-party memory market. They have been extremely successful at building quality products, and taking care of their employees considering the numerous "best employer" awards they have received over the years. Kingston started their HyperX line of enthusiast memory modules in 2002. This is a HyperX DDR3-1375 7-7-7-20 2 gig kit. Will the KHX11000D3LLK2/2G perform to the standards that we'd expect from Kingston? Read on and see!
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB Flash Drives have a read speed of 30MB/s and write speed of 20MB/sec so they certainly deserve the HyperX name as it is hands-down the fastest USB Flash drive that Kingston offers. The Kingston DataTravler HyperX USB Flash drive that we are looking at today is the 8GB version, but Kingston offers the drive with different capacities at various price points, so if you want a HyperX USB Flash drive you can pick from a 2GB ($54.99), 4GB ($99.99) or 8GB (189.99) capacity...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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The reader itself is not much bigger than a normal sized USB flash drive. Granted, the MobileLite can only handle SD and MMC (and its variants including micro and SDHC), there is much versatility in its use. Since it is hardly bigger than a normal flash drive, you can use it as one with no problem. Imagine keeping a mini-SD card in the slot and having the other slots free for other memory cards. This is a very handy device.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
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Anyone who knows anything about computer history should be aware of the Kingston brand as for the last twenty years they have been producing memory products. Since their inception in 1987 Kingston have continued to expand and develop their product catalogue from including network and storage devices in 1993 to becoming the first memory manufacturer to co-market memory upgrades with a PC-OEM in 1996. In recent years they have launched Value RAM and HyperX. Excellent business decisions mixed with a quality product range have seen Kingston become a very successful manufacturer. Today we have one of their latest products in our test labs, the Media Reader.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
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The Kingston 8GB Ultimate 266X CompactFlash card offers an amazing minimum sustained write speed rating of 266X, making it one of the fastest cards to support high-end digital cameras and devices. With transfer rates of 45MB/sec. read and 40MB/sec. write, you can capture more continuous, high resolution images in less time with the CompactFlash Ultimate than traditional CompactFlash memory cards...
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The new Kingston 19-in-1 Reader with our 8GB 266x Compact Flash card is significantly faster than the previous Kingston readers. The Kingston 19-in-1 reader was found to be 71% faster than the Kingston 15-in-1 reader when it came to read speeds and 57% faster at write speeds. This just goes to show that if you have purchased newer hi-speed memory cards in recent years and have not upgraded your card reader that an upgrade might be due...
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If you are looking to make that jump to a DDR3 setup, then I would suggest investing in the Kingston KHX13000D3LLK2/2G kit, even if it's just for the simple fact that 1333MHz and above will surpass the performance of the top-of-the-line DDR2 modules currently out. The low latency of the KHX13000D3LLK2/2G kit will yield great efficiency, but don't expect massive overclocking at the stock timings; but then, who cares? It's a DDR3 module at 1625MHz!
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Monday, December 24, 2007
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Since JEDEC is about to finalize 1600MHz as a standard DDR3 speed, many kits which were once considered High-Speed will now be relegated to standard speed parts. Perhaps a clairvoyant vision helped with the decision, because Kingston's KHX13000D3LLK2/2G PC3-13000 CL7 DDR3 RAM kit stays ahead of the curve at 1625MHz.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
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Kingston's high end of ram has always been the HyperX. HyperX ram is the line that can take excessive amounts of voltage and run at tighter timings than the ones advertised. And with the introduction of DDR3, Kingston graciously sent us the good stuff. The KHX11000D3LLK2/2G from the HyperX line is one of the latest sets boasting 7-7-7-20 at 1375MHz. Yes, we know this is an odd amount of FSB from default DDR3 settings. But Kingston is pushing the limits on this one.
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Monday, December 3, 2007
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Growing up, there really was no toy or educational tool that had as much lasting value as Lego blocks. I could spend all day pressing those bricks together, constructing every from very boxy sports cars to massive forts for my little Lego soldiers. In some ways, the Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun USB Flash Drive cashes in on this nostalgia, because it features a clicking cap system that looks a heck of a lot like Lego. In fact, If it weren't for the $62 price tag, some people may mistake the tiny wonder for a piece of Lego.
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
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Sometimes in the pursuit of a new laptop one of the limiting factors is the price, and sometimes to save on price we will sacrifice the extra, but often needed memory. We all know that some manufacturers will charge up to $200 additional dollars for an extra 1GB of memory. But why spend that additional money when you can simply head on over to the Kingston website and get that larger memory kit at a cheaper price and a good chance at speeds being faster. For my application this was true: my laptop was supplied with 2x 512mb of DDR2 400; Kingston supplied me with 2x 1GB of PC2 533, or model number KTH-ZD8000A/1G. Laptop memory can be very model-specific, and the Kingston website has a very user-friendly system to get the correct memory for your needs.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
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Thumb drives are a dime a dozen, so to help sell their 8GB DataTraveler II+, Kingston added a little software tool from the folks at Migo. Their software enables the user to carry their desktop to another computer and then back again. But, is this special functionality worth the premium?
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Friday, November 9, 2007
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The Kingston didn't come close to its enormous 1,200MHz rated speed on our Abit P35 test platform but neither did the OCZ we used for comparison. Of course that's disappointing but the KHX9600 was rock-steady and delivered sterling performance at a surprisingly reasonable price.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
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PC3-11000? That's right, PC3-11000, or 1375MHz DDR3. PC3-11000 memory seems to be a creation unique to Kingston, a leader in system memory and flash memory products that has been in business since 1987. What they have done reminds me a bit of Spinal Tap, as my initial thought was that they took a 1333MHz module and turned the dial beyond 10, right up to 11.
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