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KitGuru's choice for Best Budget Buy memory for 2013 is the 8GB Kingston HyperX Beast (Black PCB) kit. That means that whichever product we opt for in the ‘Overall' category, needs to be something very special.
It needs to be designed for extreme overclocking, where absolute performance is everything and we don't care if you can buy a brand new Apple iPad for the same money.
After much consideration and analysis, we have to declare a pair of products that really should get a ‘Well Worth Consideration' in this category – our only one for this year's awards!
In second place – just off top spot – is a set of memory with a name that's longer than you'd have thought possible: G.Skill TridentX 2,933MHz F3-2933C12D-8GTXDG 8GB. Yep. You heard that right!
In the hands of an experienced overclocker, with access to multiple mainboards, processors and even memory sticks themselves, then this is the kind of kit that you can use to go chasing records. That said, if you are a plug-n-pray merchant, then you need to give pro-class memory a wide berth. The memory is of undoubted quality, but there wasn't enough flexibility to convince us.
That brings us to the award for the Best Overall DDR3 Memory in 2013.
The winner is an 8GB set of 3,000MHz rated memory that you might not be familiar with.
The Avexir Core Extreme 3,000MHz 8GB Kit comes in at £399, but it does exactly what it says on the tin.
KitGuru Labs had this memory humming along at 3,000MHz in no time on the Asrock OC Formula board and, with a little expertise and patience, we managed to hit 3,150MHz.
With some serious tweaking, they did manage to post once at 3,192MHz.
If you want to read our review, head to this page.
KitGuru's choice for Best DDR3 Memory Overall 2013 goes to the Avexir Core Extreme 3,000MHz 8GB Kit.
Overclockers UK list a wide range of Avexir memory, over here.
Unusually for this year's awards, we're going to fine tune the memory category and also recognise the fastest memory ever seen in KitGuru Labs.
Picking out modules that will go past 3,000MHz adds in cost and to get memory that can work as fast as the ADATA's XPG V2 kit we torture tested in September takes a lot of work.
As with the GPU Cooler and Mainboard Innovation award this year, KitGuru likes to recognise the fact that a company has worked hard to push back the barriers. The limits that these folks hit today, could well becomes normal in the future, and any memory kit that can deliver 3,340MHz without specialist cooling needs to be recognised – even if the £700 price tag is crazy.
If you want to read the review, head to this page.
KitGuru's choice in the Performance DDR3 category goes to the 8GB ADATA XPG V2 3,100MHz kit.
That palit card certainly looks amazing
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I afraid my beloved ms-3 mouse dying on me.