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We decided to use the fantastic, class leading Asus Rampage IV Extreme motherboard for our review today, overclocking the Intel Core i7 3960X EE processor to 4.4ghz. We had to update to the latest version to get complete stability with the Kingston memory.
The XMP profile in the bios works fine with the memory, picking up timings of 11-13-11-30 @ 2T.
The XMP profile is not the most aggressive setting we found to work with this memory. Manually we could change the DRAM command mode from 2T to 1T. This is not as impressive as the G.Skill 2400mhz 16GB kit which we tested mid December last year. We could push it to 10-12-10-30 @ 1T at the same 2,400mhz speed. We will find out if this makes much difference in the real world shortly.
System validation is available here.
Above, the memory running at 11-13-11-30 1T. This is the tightest we could get from this kit.
Processor: Intel i7 3960X EE @ 4.4ghz
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Cooler: Antec H20 920
Memory: Kingston HyperX 2400mhz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX590 QUAD SLI. – x16/x16
Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1200W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive
Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case
Monitors: Dell U3011, 3x Ilyama ProLite E2472HDD
Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB
Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung
Comparison memory:
16GB G.Skill 2400mhz
8GB Corsair Dominator GT 2400mhz
16GB GSkill Ripjaws Z 2133mhz
32GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Software:
SiSoft Sandra
PcMark 7
3D Studio Max 2011
MaxxMem 2
THank god they are killing that huge heatspreader. looks impressive on their website but its stupid.
Very nice. wish I could afford the rest of the system.
Only problem I would have, why 8GB? id clearly go for 16GB with a system like this, seems very miserable for the platform. G.Skill have this round!
Ordinary sized heatspreaders! finally.
I like kingston memory, always been reliable for me. this memory hasn’t impressed me. 13 timings are very loose, its not much of an achievement for one of the market leaders.
Excellent choice for Gamers and builder who wants a stable Windows 7 64-bit PC systems. I played Crysis 2 and the game is very smooth as I am using Radeon HD 6950 2GB and together with this Kingston HyperX 8GB Kit. When not playing games, I do my system laboratory using VMWare Workstation 7 and running 5 virtual machines on top my Windows 7. I run Citrix laboratory using VM’s and my virtual lab is very fast.
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