Kingston’s HyperX Savage DDR4 Memory Blends Fast Speeds With Aggressive Timings

When DDR4 first hit the scene last August, it wasn’t what we’d consider ideal. As a first release, it was expensive, and despite being fast, carried with it loose enough timings that made DDR3 still look attractive. As the way things go, though, DDR4 is constantly being refined, and today’s kits are generally more impressive than those that came out alongside Intel’s X99 platform.

Kingston’s brand-new HyperX Savage DDR4 helps prove this. This series is specifically designed to maximize a kit’s frequency while keeping its timings as tight as possible. The result is that when compared to the company’s Fury series, you can expect about a decrease of about 2 with the CAS latency on average.

As an example, whereas the DDR4-2666 16GB Fury kit has a CAS latency of 15, the similar Savage kit whittles that down to 13. Across its 36 SKUs, Savage tops out at CL15, which as a few examples represents the mammoth 128GB/2666 and 16GB/3000 kits. The lowest CAS latencies are with the 2400MHz kits, which offer 4GB to 32GB densities.

Some etailers, like Newegg, are already stocking the Savage DDR4. For the 16GB 2400MHz kit, you’ll be parting with $145. For the 3000MHz variant, that bumps to $175.