Kingston Fury Beast RGB DDR4 2x8Gb KF436C17BBAK2/16

Old-new Fury

In February 2021, giant Hewlett-Packard bought the rights to the HyperX brand. After that, Kingston had to rush around and rebrand. Now all SSDs, RAM sticks, flash drives, headsets and mice for gamers will be released under the new Kingston Fury sign. And the Fury and Predator series will be renamed Beast and Renegade. The Fury Beast 2x8GB kit that came to us for tests will try to prove that the sign change did not affect anything and we have the good old Fury memory.

Preservation of continuity

To maintain continuity, Kingston designers did not change anything at all in the appearance of the old woman: the same textured black plates for cooling, the same combs with backlighting on the end, the same high radiator. Only the logo is new. Because of this, it seems that you are not meeting a new person, but meeting an old friend who has had a nose job. The impression of deja vu only intensifies during the tests. Inside the same memory chips with support for XMP 2.0, CAS CL17 and a nominal frequency of 3600 MHz. On the Intel platform, all this stuff turned out to be overclocked to 4000 MHz with a slight increase in voltage. On the stand with the AMD motherboard, the memory started acting up at around 3800 MHz, so it was decided to return to the standard 3733 MHz and not tempt fate. Moreover, it will not affect the overall performance in any way.

Low prices at the start

Realizing that many would prefer the well-known Fury memory to the new product, Kingston marketers decided to slightly reduce prices at the start, which is why the difference for identical Fury and Fury Beast kits in some stores reaches 10 – 15%. Given that we are talking about virtually identical memory, for many this will be a small but pleasant reason to save a little. At one time, the first Fury models paved the way for success in the same way - they were inexpensive, accelerated well, and at the same time rarely acted up.