Don’t let your rig slow you down, these Kingston upgrades make your battlestation beastly

When you’re building out a hot gaming rig, a lot of the focus will be on the latest and greatest GPUs and CPUs to deliver the best performance. One feature that’s often overlooked is ensuring that you’re building out a system that isn’t going to be bottlenecked by slow storage speeds. Everyone wants more storage, because more storage is better – but it also pays significant gaming dividends to ensure that the drive you buy is going to be fast enough as well.

Having the fastest CPU and greatest GPU in your rig is nice, but balanced performance will be lacking if your storage isn’t equally up to scratch. Building a new system – or upgrading one you already own – isn’t something you want to do every month or even every year, so it makes a lot of sense to get the fastest and best components you can get now. That way you get fast reliable gaming not just today, but for years to come.

Stunning storage speed

Enter the Kingston FURY Renegade G5, a Gen 5 SSD that brings with it speed and reliability that can truly change the way you game. Powered by the powerful Silicon Motion SM2508 controller, the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 offers superior Gen5 SSD speeds with a range that covers storage capacities from 1TB to 4TB.

At one time, hard drives were purely mechanical – fine for the time, but slow and prone to crashing, as well as taking up lots of space inside your PC. SSDs solved the space problem, and as they’ve evolved we’ve seen even better capacities, prices and especially speeds. That makes SSDs easily being the best choice to deliver storage, hands-down. PCIe 5.0 drives are here and available now, and the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 gives you phenomenal speeds and reliability whether you’re processing data for an AI-driven LLM, or simply playing the latest and greatest games.

If you’re thinking that this all sounds like hype, let’s put some real-world numbers into play. For many generational advances in a given technology, you might look at a 5-10% speed hike in real world benchmarks and think that it’s good enough. To put that in SSD terms, for a typical Gen 4 SSD, you might see speeds up to a peak of around 7,000MB/s read and write at best.

Your typical 5-10% speed hike might suggest speeds hitting 8,000MB/s as being a “good enough” upgrade… but Gen 5 drives like the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 pumps the accelerator up to 14,800MB/s read and 14,000MB/s write speeds on compatible motherboards.

Fast, in other words, and those aren’t just speeds that look pretty on a benchmark graph, though, seriously, they do.

These are speeds that could change the way you play games, potentially bringing initial load times (or map loading times) down – which means you spend far more time actually playing games and less time waiting for them to happen.

Upgrade to extreme performance

In gaming terms, those speeds translate to substantially faster load times, especially for games optimised for use with faster storage via technologies such as Microsoft’s DirectStorage, where you can take advantage of its fast SSD speeds without having to process data between your CPU and GPU in real time. Whether your passion is for Doom: The Dark Ages or Civilization 7, having faster storage gives you greater immersion because you’re in the game for longer and waiting around a whole lot less.

Serious games also typically entail seriously large patch files for optimisation, and again having a fast SSD on board means that you’re back in the game (and back on top) more rapidly when you’re not waiting for data crunching behind the scenes to happen.

Modern PC gaming is by definition a data hungry exercise, and that means that whether your tastes run to FPS, simulation, RPG or any other gaming genre, you’ll be constantly reading and writing data behind the scenes while you play. Here’s where you absolutely must have a good long-term reliable drive. With up to 4,000TBW, the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 will keep you gaming (and keep your other personal data safe and secure) for many happy years of gaming to come.

To get the most out of the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 you will need a motherboard with proper PCIe 5.0 support; while backwards compatibility means it will fit and run in a PCIe 4.0 M2 slot just fine, it will only do so at the peak of PCIe 4.0 throughput – and where’s the fun in that?

The reality here is that most new premium and mid-tier motherboards should support PCIe Gen 5, but it does pay to upgrade wisely in this respect. If you’re building out an AMD system, look for a motherboard using an AM5 socket (Ryzen 9000/8000/7000 series), while on the Intel side of the fence, if you’re planning out a system built around an Intel 13^th or 14^th gen processor you’re unlikely to go wrong. As always, check the motherboard specifics for your particular model to be sure.

A faster SSD can mean hotter performance, but it doesn’t have to also mean that the inside of your desktop also doubles as an air fryer, with smart temperature management built into the Kingston FURY Renegade G5. For optimal performance, the heatsink integrated into many motherboards can also help keep the temperature low, which can delay the SSD from throttling back its speed if it detects overheating, giving you maximum performance for longer.

Your killer gaming PC

The hardware is one part of the equation that makes the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 special, and software is the other part. Kingston doesn’t just provide you a super-fast SSD driver, but also the software to make the most of it, with Kingston’s SSD Manager Software providing an effortless way to manage firmware updates, monitor disk usage and manage overall disk health. Additionally, a complimentary one-year subscription to Acronis True Image is included, enabling smooth and seamless migration of your OS, games, and files, making the upgrade incredibly simple and hassle-free.

Memory to treasure

While you’re upgrading your system’s storage, you shouldn’t miss out on the opportunity to make the most of your memory as well. The Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB Memory brings with it the speed to make the most out of your new system. Here the Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB Memory lets you balance price against speed, with up to 8800MT/s speeds available to keep your system running at peak performance.

This is where pairing up the FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB Memory with the FURY Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD can give you a double-dipped benefit, because you’re maximising storage speeds for larger files and apps while also ensuring that your RAM can rapidly send data to and from your CPU and GPU as efficiently as possible. All of this adds up to a faster and more responsive gaming system.

Plus, you want to show off your fancy rig, right? That’s where the Renegade DDR5 RGB Memory’s synchronised lighting gives you a fun edge, with easy-to-use FURY CTRL software that makes personalising your system truly easy.

Discover for yourself what’s on offer from the blazing-fast Kingston FURY Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD, and check out how your rig can benefit from running Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB Memory.