I have seen kingston d3 ram with kingston chips, on the chip there printed kingston

Those are rebadged. Not only Kingston does that, even Apacer and Kingmax do that. Still these companies do not manufacture their own RAM chips themselves.

what the.... !?

personally i think is is lying lol.... F kingston

now i read back, he use the keyword "manufacture"

that's different thing liao, last time i read it somewhere dunno what company and electronic product, they find other company to help manufacture.

help manufacture is 1 thing, but rebadge other ppl chips to own brand... hrm... I still doubt it though

Today's world are only left with 3 DRAM manufacturers . Samsung , Hynix and Micron. Only 3 companies producing DRAM chips for the entire planet. So everybody else like , Kingston , A-Data , G-Skill have to buy their chips from these 3 companies.
The thing you read is most likely related to those semiconductor companies that do not have their own wafer fabrication foundry. A good example is Nvidia. TSMC manufactures most of their chips. However, Samsung is the manufacturer for their GP107 chips, which you can find in the GTX1050Ti and GTX1050 cards.

"Kingston has developed long-term relationships with the leading DRAM manufacturers. Our DRAM chips are purchased directly from these manufacturers, which include Micron, SK Hynix, Powerchip, Nanya and others. The components are shipped directly from the manufacturer's facility to Kingston's facility minimizing handling and exposure to damage." Source. Even Kingston themselves admit they dont manufacture their own DRAM chips. Their own brand markings on the chips are common though.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Dec 19 2018, 04:24 AM

I just bought 2 of A400 on 12.12. Problem is I encounter intermittent freezing when gaming. Any one of you encounter this?

im using a400 240gb. before this i use 500gb seagate hdd. so far no problem. pc startup around 5sec. play game (black desert) loading time really fast. so far im satisfied

hmm that's strange. every game I play the SSD like to freeze...I am using 480G version....Played JC4 and XCOM2 also freeze...music goes into loop..wait till SSD load data back then can resume.


Both SSD also like that. I am starting to think that the SSD's are refurbished. Lol

Is the SSD almost full?

Nope. 1 has 30% free space left and another one has 70%~80% free space left. both has same problem.

did you buy online? which seller ...hopefully not refurbished stuff got into your hands

Many are oem produces for them. Overall value for money a400. See how you use it as well, motherboard and other things play big role.

Ignore that trash. Seagate Barracuda is value for money.

https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager

Ignore that trash hdd if you need to select only one drive

Use this

https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager

How about the cheap Kingston a1000? Same issue?

For those who doesnt know.
https://shopee.com.my/search?keyword=Seagat...rracuda%20250GB

The new budget king.
Still trash.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12991/the-ki...me-ssd-review/2

This post has been edited by TristanX: Dec 24 2018, 08:21 AM

If barracuda at that price ... winner over a400

Although Kingston A1000 performance is one of the worse for NVME SSD, my opinion it's still better than SATA SSD. Even when against Barracuda SATA SSD.





https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Seagate...D_500_GB/4.html

NVME always the better choice against SATA because of the bigger bandwidth and better latency. Unless of course if the drive is really bad until SATA SSD can outperform it.