Kingston’s new high frequency HyperX DDR2 9600’s are the fastest production modules that are in stock and for sale here in the Unites States. With a mind staggering frequency 1200MHz at 5-5-5-15 they are sure to be winners when they come to performance. We take a kit of the modules and push it up to 1300MHz at 5-5-5-15 2T then go the other direction and run it at 800MHz 3-3-3-9 1T.
The Kingston PC2-9600 memory kits on the market today kick some serious ass! I had no issues getting this memory up to speed. Drop the sticks in, dial in 5-5-5-15 timings, set voltage to 2.3-2.35V and you are off and running. Those rather plain looking heat spreaders are deceiving, at no time was there a problem with heat even with the amount of voltage we were using. Big kudos to Kingston! Personally I’d rather have understated heat spreaders than something that I’m going to have to pay extra for, if it does the job then I’m happy!
l4nc3r wrote:Nice review. But I'm wondering why the 800mhz beat the 1200? Was it just motherboard computability, since it fried during the testing I assume?
All in all thanks for the review, I just had 2 sticks of HyperX fry on me while playing BF2142. I still love Kingston though.
The motherboard was having issues after overclocking and didn't impact any of the numbers in the benchmarking section. We would never post anything with numbers from a board that was having issues during testing. The memory running 800Mhz is faster because the timings allow for better performance (3-3-3-9 1T is pretty darn fast).
The bottom line is that 800MHz CL3 gives you better performance than 1200MHz CL5. It just goes to show once again that MHz isn't everything.
I must say that i do like the performance bandwith of the memory shown by the si-soft. (I should try to set my memory to 4-4-4-12 at 1t and see what happens) With it a 4-4-4-12 2t @800mhz and 2.2v and my processor at 3.2ghz at 1.34v I get right around 7450mb/s bandwith out of my corsair 2gb matched set. If you run this at the high setting and can get the 10000+ mb bandwith, it might be worth considering the cost. Just my opinion
EVGA nForce 680i SLI board, XFX GeForce 7950GT@641/1244, Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (4-4-4-12) 2.1v, Core 2 Duo E6400 (3.0ghz) at 56c max stock cooling, 2 Seagate Barracuda sata 3.0gb 320gb not raid yet and 550watts
old board at 3.2 stock videocard settings / new board at 3.0 oc video card / 3.2 & oc video card
Can't wait till DDR3 when this stuff is mainstream!
So you have to rebuild your system just to support it?
They've have the damn memory out for what, about a fkin year already but are holding it back so it can be stuck on the videocards and they can sell us the old technology (ddr2) till they have a faster memory type which they will probally call quadrate or "moneypit" and use it on the boards while selling us the old(ddr3)
I just want to be on the other side of the money train.....
EVGA nForce 680i SLI board, XFX GeForce 7950GT@641/1244, Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (4-4-4-12) 2.1v, Core 2 Duo E6400 (3.0ghz) at 56c max stock cooling, 2 Seagate Barracuda sata 3.0gb 320gb not raid yet and 550watts
old board at 3.2 stock videocard settings / new board at 3.0 oc video card / 3.2 & oc video card
Can't wait till DDR3 when this stuff is mainstream!
So you have to rebuild your system just to support it?
They've have the damn memory out for what, about a fkin year already but are holding it back so it can be stuck on the videocards and they can sell us the old technology (ddr2) till they have a faster memory type which they will probally call quadrate or "moneypit" and use it on the boards while selling us the old(ddr3)
I just want to be on the other side of the money train.....
GDDR3 is not the same as DDR3. GFX memory is less sophisticated.
The switch to DDR3 will most likely mean a new motherboard! The DIMMS won't fit. Sure CPU's etc can have support for it, but the physical traces etc. on the board will be different.....not to mention the power circuit, since DDR3 will mean lower volts!
seems like a product more advanced than the need (ie MB/chipset support)
the question is will the other components be available before DDR2 becomes obsolete/old school/over taken by DDR3/phasechange Ram?
I geuss if you had the $$$ and wanted to be sure the Memory wasn't holding your O/C back
Can't wait till DDR3 when this stuff is mainstream!