Kingston HyperX 2400mhz Review (8GB KHX2400C11D3K4/8GX)

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell February 3, 2012 Featured Tech Reviews, Memory

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

SMP – Multi-Processor
MC – Multi-Core
SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

The results are a little worse than the Corsair Dominator GT 2400mhz and the G.Skill RipJawZ kits, due to the looser DRAM RAS to CAS delay of 13.

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11 comments

Frank Rie
February 3, 2012 at 9:55 am

THank god they are killing that huge heatspreader. looks impressive on their website but its stupid.
Joseph
February 3, 2012 at 9:57 am

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!
DarthMauder
February 3, 2012 at 9:59 am

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.
max
February 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm

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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