Now Kingston is no stranger when it comes to memory and storage solutions, cause all over the years they exist practically from USB drives to SSD. Not too long ago with the introduction and launch of the AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, AMD also unveiled EXPO technology, which is sort of AMD’s version of XMP profile, but exclusive to the Ryzen systems only.
For Kingston, they have quickly announced their EXPO compatible kit as well, and today we will take a look at the Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 (RGB) 6000MT/s.
Unboxing & Features
The whole packaging looks very simple, one may also thought that, could this a high end RAM kit towards the first glance on the packaging on plastic, and yes, make no mistake this is the actual Kit in 2 sticks of RAM, ranging from a pair of 16, 32 or 64GB of RAM. One must take note that the RGB lighting is located on the top of the RAM, the sides over the heatspreader body of the kit has no RGB lights but it does comes with the Kingston FURY logo.
Lets put in a summary features of the RAM as well
- AMD EXPO™ Certified (For AMD Ryzen System)
- Plug N Play at 4800MT/s and above
- RGB Compatibility with most Motherboard Manufacturers
- Compatible with Kingston CRTL software for RGB and status
Test System
Actually Kingston is the only brand that sends in the EXPO compatible kit to us, so we could not resist but to put it on our test system as below
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7700X |
| Motherboard | MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI |
| System Memory | Kingston FURY Beast RGB 16GB X 4 (running at 6000MT) DDR5 |
| Primary Drive | NVME SSD 500GB (Gen4 X4) |
| Secondary Drive | NVME SSD 500GB (Gen3 X4) |
| PSU | Thermaltake PF1 750w PSU (Platinum) |
| Operating System | Windows 11 64bit Professional |
| Graphics Card | Radeon RX 6700XT 12GB |
| Cooling | AMD Wraith ARGB Cooler |
Performance & Benchmarks
First off, we are able to tune the RAM kit speeds from 4800MT to 6000MT without much of the hassle with our test MSI motherboard just by selecting the profile in the BIOS, we did switch to XMP as well and it boots as per usual, however if you wish to tweak it manually, it is up to you and this RAM kit can take it very well since it is an overclockable kit, the rest depends on your hardware matching in your rig. We did ran some test and the results out are on the benchmarks via AIDA64, you can take a look at it below, latency is well reasonable with good read and write speeds since we push it up to 6000MT/s while keeping voltage at 1.35V.
Technical Specifications
| Capacities | Singles: 8GB, 16GB, 32GB Kits of 2: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB |
| Speeds | 4800MT/s, 5200MT/s, 5600MT/s, 6000MT/s |
| Latencies | CL36, CL38, CL40 |
| Voltage | 1.1V, 1.25V, 1.35V |
| Operating Temperature | 0 °C to 85 °C |
| Dimensions | 133.35 mm x 42.23 mm x 7.11 mm |
Verdict & Conclusion
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The Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB is one DDR5 memory kit that is highly suitable and compatible across both AMD Ryzen 7000 series platforms, which makes it a no brainer when it comes to choosing one of the many RAM kits available in the market, not to mention there are only a handful of brands with EXPO certified kits, making this a good choice if a user wanted to switch to another platform without spending additional cost of buying another memory kit. As prices are going stable for memories, we shall see that the adoption of DDR5 will go to the masses towards every PC builds in the future.
The Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB is now selling with the average street price of RM999 for 16GB X 2 5600MT variant and it is widely available at most IT stores and Online ECommerce.