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Today we are using the latest high end motherboard from ASUS – The Rampage III Black Edition, which we reviewed late March.
Until we updated the bios to the latest version, the Kingston HyperX T1 12GB kit would not run faster than 1333mhz.
The bios correctly tuned the DRAM voltage to 1.65v (1.66v reading above), however we manually increased the QPI/DRAM core voltage to 1.35 for added stability.
Trying to force timings and latencies any tighter proved unsuccessful. We did notice that the tRAS setting was automatically detected by the ASUS bios as 24, rather than 27 noted by the XMP-1600 profile in CPU-z.
System validation is available over here
This Kingston HyperX T1 memory didn't overclock particularly well, we did manage to increase speeds to around 1670mhz, but it made negligible difference to performance results. Extra voltage didn't really help either. We would expect most people buying this specific memory kit to run with the XMP profiles enabled so it is how we will test it today.
Test System:
CPU: Intel Core i7 990x @ 4.8ghz
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Black Edition
Cooler: Antec Kuhler 620 H20
Chassis: Lian Li X2000F
Power Supply: ADATA 1200W
Graphics: AMD HD6990 QuadFireX
Memory: Kingston HyperX T1 12GB @ 1600
Hard Drives: Intel 128GB SSD (Boot), Samsung 2TB (storage), Crucial 128GB SSD.
Comparison memory: No Brand DDR3 1333mhz 4GB 9-9-9-24
Software:
SiSoft Sandra
Adobe Photoshop CS5 64 bit
3D Studio Max 2011
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Aida 64 Extreme Edition
MaxMemm
Great kit! I love the idea of 24GB for under 300. count me in.
Gamers dont need 12GB. I only edit images for the web, hard to know if I would need this or not, probably not. Wonder what Windows 8 will be like for memory demands. Vista was a hog.
I dislike oversized heatspreaders. no need for them now, they stop fitting of the best heatsinks.
Actually its very rare that heatsinks cant be fitted with these kind of heatspreaders. companies like noctua need to look into this with the newest designs and have a cutout section where the ram would be so they DO fit,.
Kingston memory? never bought it, thought it was more for pcworld and kids.
Wish I could afford an X58 system. the memory is a good price, but the rest of it isnt lol.
Christ, how much was this system? two 6990s? 990x? liquid cooled. lol. I feel like such a pauper at times. my core 2 duo just blushes everytime I open a review here :p
Hate these enormous heat spreaders ,
Rather use something like Crucial Ballistic
series . small and sensible