In these trying times, when purchasing memory for your PC or laptop will actually cost you as much as your GPU, purchasing the component has effectively been turned into a “pull the trigger” moment. So, if you’re biting the proverbial bullet, particularly for your laptop, is it worth getting a dual-memory kit of the Kingston Fury Impact DDR5-6000 SO-DIMM RAM?
What Am I Looking At?
My Fury Impact DDR5-6000 is a kit of two 16GB sticks, giving me a total of 32GB of memory. As the specification implies, this memory kit runs at a maximum frequency of 6,000MT/s, and in addition, it has a CL timing of 38-38-38 and an operating voltage of 1.35V.
Again, this is SO-DIMM RAM meant for laptops, but if you have a laptop RAM adapter, you could possibly use it as desktop RAM too.
What’s Good About It?
Well, beyond the fact that this is laptop memory and therefore devoid of any RGB (for the very obvious reason and fact), this is technically high-performance RAM. So long as your laptop is not using soldered memory, this memory kit actually does provide a small boost in performance, particularly when I’m in productivity mode. We all know how much of a pig Chrome is, so having that extra memory for all the extra tabs helps a load.
Gaming, for that matter, gets a slight bump in average frames, but not by a whole lot. At best, I’m ekeing out an additional five, six frames more in most AAA titles, while other titles, indie and non-indie, remain unchanged.
What’s The Catch?
As most laptops do, you’re not necessarily going to be able to manually set your memory speed, as you would on a desktop PC. That said, this Fury Impact DDR5-6000 RAM somehow runs at 4,800MT/s by default, but again, that’s fine. In this case, the 32GB capacity is the sweet spot for the majority of laptops and PCs. Oh, and this particular kit isn’t AMD EXPO ready, only XMP. But again, to be fair, there isn’t a whole lot of laptop RAM that does the whole
Another issue I’m having right now is actually getting the official pricing for this memory kit, all due to the ongoing memory price surge and VRAM chip shortage. Even worse, most PC stores don’t sell SO-DIMM memory in kits, opting to sell them in single sticks instead; a single 16GB DDR5-5600 stick already retails for RM760, while a single 32GB stick of the same frequency goes for almost double that.
Should I Buy It?
Not unless you’re finding the 16GB kit in your laptop to be lacking or insufficient; that amount of memory is the industry standard right now, and to risk sounding like a broken record, the soaring prices of memory make the idea (or desire) of upgrading your RAM capacity lean more towards luxury than necessity at this point.
Assuming that you are biting down hard and saying “To heck with it”, you honestly could do worse than Kingston’s Fury Impact lineup for your laptop.
