Most gamers associate HP products with either enterprise-class components or laptops/ultrabooks for businessmen and entrepreneurs. However, the American giant does not stop trying to gain a foothold and correct this situation, regularly releasing new laptops, memory modules, drives, monitors and mice for gamers. So, at the beginning of this decade, the company announced a completely new direction of overclocking RAM called HP V8.


A quick glance at the V8 modules makes it clear that the manufacturer has spent a lot of time on design and expects its products to be used for stylish assemblies with transparent side walls and abundant lighting. Highly efficient heatsinks are made of pure aluminium and tightly bonded to the memory chips. The height of the scallops does not exceed 40 mm, which minimizes possible conflicts when installing a high tower cooler or LSS. In most cases, the scallops are decorated with neat LEDs that support most popular backlight timing systems.

The core of the HP V8 series is made up of standard DDR4 memory modules in DIMM format, which are compatible with most desktop systems from AMD and Intel. The minimum amount of memory is 8 GB, the maximum is 32 GB. The choice of clock frequencies is quite common for overclocking memory: 3000, 3200, and 3600 MHz, the operating voltage in all cases is 1.35 V, but the latency can change from CL16 to CL18. Naturally, in all cases support for XMP 2.0 technology is declared. Despite the development of the DDR5 standard, the manufacturer has not announced plans to release V8 DDR5 memory (note: the situation at the beginning of 2024).