Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 & HyperX DDR3-1600 LoVo @ HH

***craig5320*** · May 24, 2010, 04:50 PM

Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 & DDR3-1600 Review
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Today we have Kingstons HyperX DDR3-2400 which give huge potential memory bandwidth.

Kingston dont just do extreme speed though, they also produce a very interesting product further down their catalogue. Their LoVo sticks offer some very competitive performance at settings far below the reference 1.65v.

IvanV · May 24, 2010, 07:36 PM

Both kits look really impressive, but how much was the CPU overclocked during the 2400 testing (I didn't find it in the text, could be my mistake)?

***Veridian3*** · May 24, 2010, 07:40 PM

4.0ghz...

blibbax · May 25, 2010, 11:50 AM

Regarding the 2400mhz, it's difficult to judge the real world performance impact of such fast memory when it has to be run with such a vastly different CPU speed. The latencies are slightly high compared to lower speed (e.g. 1600mhz) performance memory, and I don't know how that trades off.

In addition, I'm guessing these units, especially with fan, are super expensive?

For the Lovo units, did you take any measurements of how much power they actually save?

***Veridian3*** · May 25, 2010, 12:50 PM

For the performance impact you really need to think about memory intensive tasks and look at the bandwidth available. Those sticks give us tri-channel like bandwidth on a dual channel setup. For most tasks though it wouldnt make a huge difference but these are about overclocking and flexibility... for non OCers the best option is something like 1333/1600MHz with as low timings as possible.

For the energy saved, its not the easiest thing to measure without insanely expensive pro equipment but you are looking at a few watts under load. Where it gets very interesting is on AMD systems where you can build energy efficient AM3, DDR3 and 785G + drives at under 60w anyway... these sticks can take you closer to 50w which is crazy low for a high spec media PC.

Cow_160483 · May 25, 2010, 01:20 PM

Nice

May 24, 2010, 04:50 PM	#1
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May 24, 2010, 07:36 PM	#2
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,914 Rep Power: 333 System Specs	Re: Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 & HyperX DDR3-1600 LoVo @ HH Both kits look really impressive, but how much was the CPU overclocked during the 2400 testing (I didn't find it in the text, could be my mistake)? __________________ If anyone has Portal 2 and hasn't played the co-op and wants to do me a favour, let me know (PM me or whatever).

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May 25, 2010, 11:50 AM	#4
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,230 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 & HyperX DDR3-1600 LoVo @ HH Regarding the 2400mhz, it's difficult to judge the real world performance impact of such fast memory when it has to be run with such a vastly different CPU speed. The latencies are slightly high compared to lower speed (e.g. 1600mhz) performance memory, and I don't know how that trades off. In addition, I'm guessing these units, especially with fan, are super expensive? For the Lovo units, did you take any measurements of how much power they actually save? __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

May 25, 2010, 12:50 PM	#5
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,028 Rep Power: 181	Re: Kingston HyperX DDR3-2400 & HyperX DDR3-1600 LoVo @ HH For the performance impact you really need to think about memory intensive tasks and look at the bandwidth available. Those sticks give us tri-channel like bandwidth on a dual channel setup. For most tasks though it wouldnt make a huge difference but these are about overclocking and flexibility... for non OCers the best option is something like 1333/1600MHz with as low timings as possible. For the energy saved, its not the easiest thing to measure without insanely expensive pro equipment but you are looking at a few watts under load. Where it gets very interesting is on AMD systems where you can build energy efficient AM3, DDR3 and 785G + drives at under 60w anyway... these sticks can take you closer to 50w which is crazy low for a high spec media PC.

May 25, 2010, 01:20 PM	#6
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