Apogee GT DDR3-2000

Great in theory, but Josh Collins isn’t so sure about the practice of this unique memory kit.

Featuring stock latency timings of 9-8-8-24 at a blistering DDR3-2000 with 2.1v, it’s no surprise that the Apogee GT kit boasts a sizeable heatsink design to account for the inevitable thermal waste. What’s different, however, is the manner in which the solution has been implemented.

The first part takes a leaf from the book of Cell Shock (renowned German performance memory manufacturer), with significantly solid slabs of metal literally bolted together to clamp onto the memory ICs. Then, with an interesting design coming from Apogee, a finned heatsink plate is bottled to the top of the memory modules.

The concept itself is fairly straight forward, but for the end user that isn’t used to regularly tinkering with hardware, or confident in handling multi-hundreds of dollars worth of memory, actually implementing the cooling solution in a system could be a nerve-wracking experience. The bolting of the heatsink plate to the memory means the memory has to be in the 100 per cent correct position to then slot into the DIMM slots.

Strutting its stuff with a stock specification of DDR3-2000 C9, we were eager to find what these new modules were capable of. When we get a kit such as this, we first run them at known quick settings such as DDR3-1600 C6 and DDR3-1800 C7. The modules did these frequencies with ease yet when it came time to perform at the stock specifications, they left a lot to be desired.



Setting to DDR3-2000 9-8-8-24, the system failed to boot. Loosening the timings slightly to 9-9-9-24 also delivered the same result. We tried additional voltage before concluding that the Apogee GT DDR3-2000 9-8-8-24 was over-specced.

Not an easy kit for the average user and unable to operate at the proposed specs, we can only advise people to stay with more well known manufacturers such as Corsair, Kingston, Team Group, Patriot and G.Skill.