Kingston FURY Beast 3600MHz 32GB DDR4 Review

How Much Does It Cost?

The Kingston FURY Beast 3600MHz 32GB DDR4 memory kit is available now from most major retailers. It’s currently on Amazon for £247.99, which I’ll admit is a lot of money, but then again, this is one of the larger capacity and higher speed kits in the range. The 16GB kit is just £132.99, and an 8GB DIMM is just £66.99. However, there are other speeds available and various prices from 2666 MHz up to 3733 MHz, so you should be able to find something to suit your needs.

Overview

Kingston is one of the most respected and well-known names in the world when it comes to memory products. I’ve been using their products since the SDRAM days of having my Pentium III, and in that time, I’ve never had a single problem with any of their products. While the new Kingston FURY Beast sells itself with a pretty grand and aggressive name, the kits are actually pretty modest and more gamer/consumer-focused. There are faster kits out there pushing 4000-5000 MHz, but really they’re of little benefit to most users, cost a bloody fortune, and are generally just favoured for overclocking enthusiasts.

At 3600 MHz, the kit I reviewed is plenty fast, delivering all the performance you’re likely to need even for a high-end gaming PC or workstation. Plus, the reliability and compatibility are significantly higher at these sorts of speeds, and I was able to get it working with a simple plug and play (2666MHz), and the XMP profile had it booting at 3600 MHz on the first try.

The kit didn’t seem to like overclocking, but since this is a 3600 MHz kit and the top of the range for the BEAST is 3733 MHz, it’s not that surprising, and if it went faster, they would likely have binned it into that higher bracket as standard. Sure, you can slacken off the timings and get it to post, but there would be no benefit in doing so. Personally, I couldn’t care less, this is clearly a straight-shooting and consumer-friendly kit with no fuss, and they’re performing exactly as promised.

The design is pretty cool, maybe a little overdone though. There’s a lot of angles and bumps going on which do look cool. However, the top edges of the metal that join up to the RGB light bar look like someone couldn’t stop designing them and they’re all over the place. Alas, it still looks interesting, and when it’s in the PC, the only part you’re going to see regularly is the RGB light bar anyway.

The RGB looks great though, and with that infrared sync technology, each DIMM matches up perfectly with its neighbour. If you get really bored, you can slot a business card between them so they can’t communicate and throw the sync off… that’ll keep you busy for like five seconds of your life. Overall though, the colours are gorgeous with a nice range of fades/effects that should appeal to most PC gamers.

Should I Buy Them?

The Kingston FURY Beast score highly with me, mostly due to the fact that every kit size and speed in the range appear to be in stock! More often than not, most brands claim to have a range, but you rarely see other models available. The range of speeds and capacities are well suited to the majority of system builds and PC gaming too, so you just need to pick the one that best suits your motherboard/CPU capabilities and your budget. Overall though, these deliver great performance and are very reliable kits!