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Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR3-1600 RAM kit


Author:  Jason Dumbaugh
Date:  2008.08.13
Topic:  Memory
Provider:  Kingston
Manufacturer:  Kingston






Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR3-1600 RAM kit

Kingston
Kingston HyperX

Kingston KHX12800D3K2/2G DDR3 1600MHz 2GB kit

Benchmark results:

At 1375MHz, we got the following results:

  • CPU-Z - timings 8-10-10-26
  • RightMark Stability - test time 10 minutes, 56 seconds
  • RightMark Multi-threaded - total time 3 minutes, 58 seconds
  • MemTach - benchmark took 27.44 seconds to run, average memset was 2403.2 MB/sec, average memcpy was 1866.3MB/sec.
  • Performance Test - 567.9 operations per second, Memory Mark shows average of 652.6, PassMark rating of 117.5
  • SiSoft Cache and Memory - 35.332 GB/sec
  • SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 5821MB/sec
  • SiSoft Sandra Memory Latency - 79ns

At 1600MHz, we got the following results:

  • CPU-Z - timings 8-11-11-30
  • RightMark Stability - test time 10 minutes, 56 seconds
  • RightMark Multi-threaded - total time 3 minutes, 57 seconds
  • MemTach - benchmark took 26.67 seconds to run, average memset was 2469.0 MB/sec, average memcpy was 1926.2MB/sec.
  • Performance Test - 581.7 operations per second, Memory Mark shows average of 655.7, PassMark rating of 118.0
  • SiSoft Cache and Memory - 35.932 GB/sec
  • SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 5896MB/sec
  • SiSoft Sandra Memory Latency - 75ns

 

Conclusion:

If you're looking to get into the DDR3 market with a ~$200 kit, the Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600MHz kit is quite reasonable, and produces great results. It can be purchased for $185 from shop.kingston.com. I would suggest purchasing this kit if you're interested in Kingston RAM, for their DDR3-1375 kit costs $183 from shop.kingston.com.

Real Time Pricing:

 



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