It's not an upgrade. It's not even a downgrade. You might call it a sidegrade.
Let me explain...
Ever since I started building computers in the early 2000s, I've been drawn to Kingston RAM. They're cheap, reliable, and their heatsink design looks cool, but not over the edge, which is just right for my taste. A couple of years ago, they sold their performance division, HyperX, to HP while still retaining manufacturing of RAM modules. Kingston HyperX became just HyperX (HyperX Fury to be precise).
I just recently discovered that HP completely acquired the HyperX name a few months ago, and banned Kingston from using it in any way. So now Kingston is branding their RAM Kingston again, not HyperX. To maintain the performance branding, Kinston uses the same Fury name that they did under HyperX, resulting in things like this kit of Kinston Fury Beast.
I personally think the naming is a bit meh (Fury Beast... Fu
rry Beast?), but the design is still the same clean stuff that I used to like. I just got a bit carried away by the happy news of the Kinston brand being back in the game, and had to order this 4x8 GB kit of DDR4-3200 RAM to celebrate the good old times. It will be replacing my 2x16 GB Corsair kit of similar speed, so I probably won't notice anything in terms of performance. My PC-related purchases have always been more on the sentimental side rather than the sensible one.
As for specs, their timings are a standard 16-18-18-36, which are a bit tighter than my Corsair's 16-20-20-38, but I suspect this will mean nothing in real life. What's interesting, though, is that the spec sheet claims that these have an SPD standard speed of 2400 MHz rather than the 2133 that I've seen every single RAM kit operate at so far.
