Intro, benchmarks, and conclusion.

ADATA has been a regular name on our reviews for the past few months and recently they sent us another SSD and one of their XPS Plus DDR3 kits. Today, we'll be looking at the ADATA XPG Plus DDR3 2GB x 3 piece kit with the part number AX3U1600PB2G8-3P.

This kit of RAM has a Cas latency timing of 8-8-8-24 and a working voltage of 1.55V to 1.75V. Curiously, though the sticker on the RAMs state this, ADATA's website states that the working voltage is 1.65V to 1.85V. To be safe, we decide not to crank up the voltage since we don't typically overclock the products we get and benchmark it as is, since most consumers won't care to overclock. Besides, according to ADATA's website the Plus series is meant for mainstream desktop users. But to be fair, you could probably safely raise the clockspeed on this kit up to 1,800MHz; don't mess with the timings though.

ADATA uses a metallic red heatspreader made of aluminium for this kit and if you are the kind to care about your components looking pretty, this would be rather eye catching.

We did some benchmarks using PCMark Vantage, SiSoftware's Sandra 2010 Lite, and via the Cache and Memory benchmark on Everest Ultimate Edition 5.50. On PCMark Vantage the kit scored 6,727 on the Memory test suite, just about the performance level for mainstream RAMs. The other tests can be seen with the screenshots below, images would be easier to digest than words after all.



This kit from ADATA performs well as far as 1,600MHz level RAMs are concerned though overclocking is not something it's good at since this is clearly one for the mainstream market and since ADATA is known to be a more affordable brand compared to the other big names (at least locally if not elsewhere). From a personal point of view, there's no reason to pick a more expensive brand over ADATA so if you are not one for superficial things like brand loyalty, the ADATA XPG Plus kit here should be an appealing choice.