The Kingston line of HyperX RAM has been on the market for a long time and offers RAM kits that enthusiasts and gamers like for the high performance offered. Kingston has added a new product to its line of RAM called the HyperX H2O.

The big feature of the HyperX H2O RAM kits is the special heat sinks that have ports for liquid cooling built-in. The liquid cooled RAM allows the enthusiast to cool the RAM making it more stable at higher operating frequencies.

Kingston offers a few kits in the line including a 4GB kit running at 2000MHz wit 9-11-9 latencies. A 6GB kit with three 2GB modules is offered with the same latencies and 2000MHz frequency. The highest performing of the kits is a 4GB kit with 2133MHz speed with the same 9-11-9 latencies.

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We may be half way through 2010 already, but iSuppli has just released the rankings for memory makers for 2009. The company looks at market share and revenue to determine the leader in the global market.

ISuppli has found that Kingston was the top memory maker in 2009. According to iSuppli, the company had 40.3% of the memory market for DRAM modules last year. According to iSuppli, Kingston raked in $2.85 billion on memory alone.

The second place company in memory was A-Data with 7.4% of the market. The top five included Ramaxel, Smart Modular, and Crucial. Enthusiast favorite Corsair was number eight on the top ten list with 3.5% of the market.

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Digital cameras and camcorders today are always matching towards higher resolution and more detailed images and recordings. To be able to store enough of the video to make recording times last requires ever larger capacity memory cards. Kingston has offered up a new SDXC card at Computex that is speed Class 10.

The new memory card is the Kingston 64GB SDXC UHS-1 Class 10. UHS-1 is the new class of ultra high-speed bus architecture cards for the SDXC format. The card is designed for fast data transfer speeds of 104MB/sec and future cards using the specification will be able to hit 300MB/s.

Kingston promises 10MB/sec minimum data transfer rate and up to 60MB/sec read and 35MB/sec write speeds for the card. This much speed and storage are far from cheap. Kingston will ship the card at the end of the month for $499.

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Any person who really likes something be it computers or cars or anything else wants them to perform their best. In the computer world, better performance often boils down to faster clock speeds for memory and other components inside a computer.

Kingston has unveiled a new RAM kit in its HyperX line today called the HyperX dual-channel DDR3 memory kit (Kingston part#: KHX2400C9D3T1K2/4GX). The RAM has received Intel XMP certification on the Core i7 platform when operating at 2400MHz.

Timings for the RAM are 9-11-9-27-2 at 1.65V. The new RAM kits will be available to purchase in Q2 at an undisclosed price. You can bet the blazing fast memory won’t be cheap.

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Kingston has a huge range of memory for computers that will fit just about every notebook and desktop platform out there. The company also has a full line of flash drives and SSDs as well. Kingston has announced a new line of memory today claimed to be the world’s fastest low-voltage, ultra-low voltage performance memory.

The RAM runs at 1.25V at 1600MHz and is the lowest voltage RAM for PCs available today. Kingston has the new memory in its HyperX DDR3 range in a LoVo line. The line will include three different models of memory.

A mainstream low voltage kit will run at 1600MHz, a 1.35V kit will be offered, and a 1333MHz 1.25V kit will be available. All three kits are tested to work on the Asus P7P55D EVO mainboard. A 4GB kit capable of 1866MHz at 1.35V or 1600MHz at 1.25V will sell for $203. A 4GB 1.35V kit will sell for $158, and a 4GB 1333MHz kit at 1.25V will sell for $154.

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Who would’ve thought memory cards could be so full of intrigue.  Andrew “bunnie” Huang – whose name you might remember from inside the chumby One – was prompted to investigate an apparent bad batch of Kingston microSD cards when the touchscreen widget device (which stores its OS on a microSD) started acting up.  He went on to discover that his dodgy batch was in fact the tip of a fake card iceberg, which seems to suggest Kingston’s suppliers have been producing so-called “ghost shift” fakes during factory downtime, with Kingston’s brand but serious quality shortcomings.

To figure that out, bunnie had to go round collecting various real and fake memory cards.  The latter would sometimes be out in huge trays, with street vendors dropping the cards into Kingston packaging and slapping on an “authenticity” hologram and serial number.

“One vendor in particular interested me; it was literally a mom, pop and one young child sitting in a small stall of the mobile phone market, and they were busily slapping dozens of non-Kingston marked cards into Kingston retail packaging. They had no desire to sell to me, but I was persistent” Andrew “bunnier” Huang

After stripping down the various samples with nitric acid and acetone, it was revealed that several of the Kingston-branded cards were in fact fakes, and that even the authentic Kingston cards used Sandisk or Toshiba chips.  It’s an interesting – if technical – read, but if you’re thinking of picking up a new memory card (or trying to save a few bucks by grabbing one in your local market) you should definitely take a look.

[via Red Ferret Journal]

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Kingston has offered 256GB flash drives before, but for some reason decided not to offer the 256GB DataTraveler 200 in America. The reason was probably the roughly $900 price tag the drive had when it debuted last summer in the UK. Kingston has decided the time is right for a massive capacity flash drive in America and has announced it is now shipping the DataTraveler 310 with 256GB of storage.

The 310 has Password Traveler software installed to let the user create a password-protected zone the drive for more data security. The secure area can be up to 90% of the total drive capacity and doesn’t require the user to have admin rights on the host computer. The huge storage space is enough for 365 CDs, 54 DVDs, or 51,000 images.

Kingston promises data transfer rates of 25MB/sec read and 12MB/sec write. The drive measures 2.9″ x 0.87″ x 0.63″ and has a removable cap that covers the USB port. The flash drive also ships with a loop to attach it to a key ring. The price is as staggering as the storage capacity at $1,108 making it more expensive than the DataTraveler 300 that was in the UK last year.

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There are so many devices on the market today that use SD cards for storage that the format is one of the most common around. You will find SD cards in use in cameras, netbooks, camcorders, and other gadgets. The SDHC format is growing in capacity and performance all the time and Kingston has announced that it is shipping a couple new SDHC cards.

Both of the new cards are Class 10, but promise read performance of 22MB/sec and 18MB/sec write performance, which is higher than Class 10 specs call for. The Class 10 SDHC cards will come in 16GB and 32GB capacities. The cards meet Class 10 specs dictating a minimum 10MB/sec data transfer rate.

Both cards are complaint with SD Association specification version 3.00. The 16GB SDHC card will sell for $129 and the 32GB SDHC card will sell for $245. Both of these cards will be great for HD video cameras with the performance and capacity they offer.

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Not too long ago Kingston had to recall some of its secure flash drives because a flaw was found in the encryption used that allowed the security protocols to be bypassed. Kingston wasn’t the only flash drive maker that had to recall secure drives because of the flaw. Today Kingston has unveiled a new flash drive that uses hardware approved by the DoD for the transportation of classified documents.

The new flash drive is called the DataTraveler 5000 and it is FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified with Level 3 certification pending. The flash drive has 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption and a XTS cipher mode that uses elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms meeting Suite B standards approved by the US government.

The DoD and US government approved Suite B algorithms for use in the multinational sharing of both classified and unclassified documents and data. The drive also uses patented Secured by SPYRUS technology with hardware-based 256-bit XTS-AES encryption. The DataTraveler 5000 is available in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities for $111, $185, $231, and $400 respectively.

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