Kingston 8GB PC3L 1600MHz Laptop RAM (KVR16LS118)

Back in June 2014, I got myself a Dell 3442 with Core i3 4th Gen and 4GB of RAM. It came with Ubuntu, but I quickly switched it to my favorite OS: I am running Xubuntu 14.04 on this laptop.Over the past few months that I have been using this laptop, I realized that 4GB is not enough!! That is especially if you open a lot of tabs in Google Chrome.So, back in July, I opened the laptop and tried inserting an 8GB DDR3 stick I had with me. But, the laptop started beeping because it can only accept DDR3L, the low power, low voltage version of DDR3. When I checked the prices at a few places, I found they were fairly costly. So, I decided to wait. But, by end of August 2014, the system had started to become unresponsive even with other apps (think large compilations, etc). Task manager in Xubuntu clearly showed that my system was thrashing, i.e., the system was using up all the RAM and was then using the swap quite extensively. So, I had to bite the bullet and shell out for this 8GB DDR3L stick.Delivery was fast. Immediately after getting it, I stuck this 8GB DDR3L stick into the ONLY RAM slot my laptop had and boot it up. No beeps this time. :)Over the past few days (writing this review in mid Sept 2014) that I have been using this stick, everything seems to have been working fine. Swap usage has gone down to nil. And the system is responsive in most cases, including too many tabs open in Chrome (think of 32 open tabs with at least 2 to 3 tabs playing unintentional and unintended flash stuff that advertisers push at us). Lets hope things continue to work fine in the future.Overall, recommended if you use your laptop for running RAM hungry apps.

Nice product and working fine. Go for it. Before purchasing Ram for laptop. I will suggest to do research about your RAM and motherboard. I have lenovo g510 laptop. I had 4GB DDR3-PC3L-1. 35V-SODIMM-12800 RAMbefore. I bought this 8GB ram and put together. It's working fine. I checked with cpuiz software for details. It's showing ok result. At first time of installation put 8GB In your laptop alone. So that your laptop can detect hardware change. After it's boot up you can add 4gb ram later. Always check your motherboard specifications before buying. I hope this review will help someone.

I had to specifically search for a RAM with the same specs as my original one and this was the one that matched. Before buying, make sure that the latency and the type of RAM are the same as your original RAM if you're going for an upgrade (in this case, it's a CL11 and a SODIMM type, 1600MHz). If you're going for a complete overhaul, check the motherboard capabilities. This one worked for me and I notice a very obvious increase in multitasking and in the general speed of the PC. I did buy it for around 5.1k and it probably will drop further, later on, but it's not a bad investment if you're going to use it. My usage is not CPU heavy (usually) and I have a Lenovo G500 that's still working well, so for me, this was a good product for the times I use it a bit more intensively than normal (mostly when using android emulators). I'd say that this is probably for the old gen laptops (Intel 3rd-4th gen), so if you have one that is compatible and looking for an upgrade for a product that's pretty much at its "End-of-Life" (the laptop) and you're sure that it's worth it, go for it.

Actually I have doubt that it's a genuine Kingston 8GB DDR3 Laptop RAM but after successful verification of RAM through Kingston officials via email now I can say that it is original Kingston 8GB DDR3 Laptop RAM.

Got this delivered within 2 days. Was a genuine product. As previous reviews say, check your current ram specs from CPU-Z, compare with the specs of this ram and buy. Check the frequency that you CPU support, if your current ram is 1333 MHZ and you CPU support 1600 MHZ, you can buy that and notice a considerable difference in multi-tasking. Please note that adding ram will increase your ability to multi-task and a slight improvement in performance. The overall performance still depends on your CPU's compute capacity and other factors

1) I purchased this RAM module for my HP Envy TouchSmart 15-J109TX Notebook PC which came bundled with 8GB DDR3 Samsung RAM.2) 8GB was enough for me up til now, but now I have been doing a lot of video editing and do no wish to wait until I run out of memory.This Ram exactly matched the Samsung DDR3 RAM that came with my laptop. CL, Voltage and Frequency, all three matched exactly.3) Before upgrading, always make sure you match the CL, Voltage and Frequency of both the RAMs. Uneven frequencies of RAM may lead to system unstability and heating up of RAM module. And may even result in system crash.4) Do not buy before making sure you have matched all the three attributes of both the RAM. If you need any help identifying these information of your RAM, you can use CPU-Z. Google "CPU-Z', download it and run it. I have attached a snapshot of how it looks.5) I installed it in my HP Laptop recently and uploaded a video if anyone is interested is seeing..https: // youtu. be/ HWNGpp2fzf0(remove spaces in the link).6) It's been a week and it's working fine. No issue at all.7) Packaging is done very thoroughly, so don't worry about transit damage. And the delivery will be on time. If there's any issue, Amazon Customer Representative will take care of it. These guys are best.8) If your processor supports higher frequency RAM (let's say X) and the RAM (let's say Y) that came with the laptop is of lower frequency(i.e. Y is less than X or Y < X), you can ditch that and sell it on eBay or OLX and purchase the higher frequency RAM to match your processor, you will see a noticeable performance improvement.See the CPU Model name in CPU-Z and then google it out, you will get to know everything about your processor.