A Closer Look

You can tell that the folks at Kingston gave careful consideration to the logo placement on these sticks as both sides are almost identical—one is missing the sticker with the label on it. There is not a lot of usable information on that label other than that it is part of a set of two sticks and that its operating voltage is 1.65V. Anything else is going to take a part number decoder to decipher.


Looking at the profile of the sticks, I can see that Beast reference in the design of the metal heatsink, with the area that contains the logos and label being the mouth, the fins up top being hair, and ears and eyes in-between.


That heatsink has been formed out of two pieces of metal that have been stamped into shape to meet at the top of the DIMM for a tunnel air can travel down into, which baths both sides of the DIMM in fresh air.


I took a close look at either end of the DIMMs for something that might disclose anything useful about overclocking them, but I found nothing other than a number referencing the PCB itself. I didn't even see anything denoting the PCB's number of layers, but documentation from Kingston states that the HyperX Beast sticks use an 8-layer PCB.