Lexar PLAY microSDXC Benchmark Tested Lexar announced the PLAY microSD card series in Q4 2020 as being a microSDXC card that can hold all your content, no matter if they are games, movies, music or books. The Lexar Play microSD cards are capable of reaching read speeds of up to 150 MB/s. This means they …more

Patriot EP Series High Endurance microSD Cards Last week during CES 2021 the team over at Patriot launched their EP series High Endurance microSDHC/XC cards. These new memory cards are designed for video recording devices needing to operate under extreme weather conditions and harsh environments with outstanding reliability and durability. The Patriot High Endurance cards are backed …more

Samsung introduced new PRO Plus and EVO Plus SD cards this morning that will be appealing for content creators and and professionals in the photography and videography space! The PRO Plus is aimed at professionals with sequential speeds of up to 100MB/s read and 90MB/s write. The EVO Plus is aimed at content creators with transfer …more

Patriot Viper 4 Blackout Series With Samsung B Die Patriot Viper 4 Blackout Series memory modules came out in 2019 and were designed from the ground up to provide the best performance with a style that matches almost any gaming PC build. All Patriot Viper 4 Blackout Series models come with  nice looking black heat …more

In July 2020, HyperX expanded its Predator DDR4 and FURY DDR4 memory families to include higher speed kits and larger capacities. If you haven’t looked at DDR4 memory kits in recent months or years the advancements have been impressive! HyperX Predator DDR4 memory kits are now available in massive 256GB (8 x 32GB modules) at clock frequencies of up to 3200MHz. If …more

Select Plus, Go! Plus, and React Plus Get Benchmarked Kingston Digital released the ‘Canvas’ series of Flash memory cards in 2018 and while the series was widely popular, it was due for refresh as consumer needs have changes and speeds have improved. In March 2020, Kingston released the new and improved ‘Canvas Plus’ series Flash cards. Canvas …more

V-Color entered the gaming memory market in 2013 and entered the North American sales market in 2014. In recent years they have started to make a name for themselves by offering good quality memory modules at rock bottom prices. Their newest DDR4 memory kit, PRISM II RGB, has gotten a fair bit of attention as it is …more

Ballistix, Micron’s global brand of gaming memory, today announced the addition of 4000MHz memory to their Elite series. This is the fastest Ballistix offering to date and best of all the new Ballistix Elite 4000MHz memory modules are AMD Ryzen and Intel platforms ready with an Intel XMP 2.0 profile for easy setup and configuration. …more

Gigabyte / Aorus is well known for their reliable motherboards and video cards.  Like most companies, they are slowly diversifying their catalog branching into other markets; today they are expanding their product line into memory.  I believe they are the first motherboard manufacturer that is daring to step into the memory market. As it is …more

Last week, HyperX released a Gaming microSD Card series in North America aimed at mobile gamers who need additional storage space to store and play games. The HyperX Gaming microSD Cards are available in available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities and feature read speeds of up to 100MB/s and write speeds of 80MB/s. HyperX Gaming microSD cards also meet UHS-I, …more

A couple months back, Samsung introduced the Samsung PRO Endurance microSDHC/microSDXC memory cards. This new series was designed for use in devices that have continuous video recording such as surveillance and security cameras, body cameras and dash cams. The Samsung PRO Endurance microSD cards are available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and have a 1080P endurance rating of 17,520 …more

Adata XPG Spectrix D40 DDR4 RGB Memory Years ago picking out memory was fairly easy, as long as it was compatible with your motherboard you were good to go.  Now there are many things to take into consideration, such as the heatsink, speed, timings, overclockability and design.  The recent trend is to put RGB LEDs …more

Legit Reviews attended an Intel Data Center Group (DCG) tech briefing this morning where Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory was announced. Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a new class of memory and storage technology architected specifically for use in the data center, where more and faster memory is needed to drive innovation. Intel Optane DC …more

We have been reviewing HyperX memory for nearly 16 years, but today we are looking at our first HyperX memory kit that features RGB lighting. RGB RAM has been around for some time, so HyperX knew they had to bring something innovative to market this late in the game and that is exactly what they …more